From: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:58:32 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: branch: let delete_branches skip unmerged branches on bulk refusal
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4d6f0f184adfbf057aad138e92473433d27efa1d;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git

branch: let delete_branches skip unmerged branches on bulk refusal

Add a skip-unmerged mode to delete_branches() and check_branch_commit()
so a bulk caller can silently skip branches that are not fully merged
and carry on, rather than erroring with the "use 'git branch -D'"
advice that the plain "git branch -d" path emits. Existing callers are
unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/builtin/branch.c b/builtin/branch.c
index db7cb01190..c44f710a48 100644
--- a/builtin/branch.c
+++ b/builtin/branch.c
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static int branch_merged(int kind, const char *name,
 enum delete_branch_flags {
 	DELETE_BRANCH_FORCE = (1 << 0),
 	DELETE_BRANCH_QUIET = (1 << 1),
+	DELETE_BRANCH_SKIP_UNMERGED = (1 << 2),
 };
 
 static int check_branch_commit(const char *branchname, const char *refname,
@@ -205,10 +206,13 @@ static int check_branch_commit(const char *branchname, const char *refname,
 	}
 	if (!(flags & DELETE_BRANCH_FORCE) &&
 	    !branch_merged(kinds, branchname, rev, head_rev)) {
-		error(_("the branch '%s' is not fully merged"), branchname);
-		advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_FORCE_DELETE_BRANCH,
-				  _("If you are sure you want to delete it, "
-				  "run 'git branch -D %s'"), branchname);
+		if (!(flags & DELETE_BRANCH_SKIP_UNMERGED)) {
+			error(_("the branch '%s' is not fully merged"),
+			      branchname);
+			advise_if_enabled(ADVICE_FORCE_DELETE_BRANCH,
+					  _("If you are sure you want to delete it, "
+					  "run 'git branch -D %s'"), branchname);
+		}
 		return -1;
 	}
 	return 0;
@@ -316,7 +320,8 @@ static int delete_branches(int argc, const char **argv, int kinds,
 		if (!(ref_flags & (REF_ISSYMREF|REF_ISBROKEN)) &&
 		    check_branch_commit(bname.buf, name, &oid, head_rev, kinds,
 					flags)) {
-			ret = 1;
+			if (!(flags & DELETE_BRANCH_SKIP_UNMERGED))
+				ret = 1;
 			goto next;
 		}