> There's "branch --merged" already. And in recent versions of git, the
> scriptable for-each-ref knows it, too. So you could do something like:
>
>   git for-each-ref --format='delete %(refname)' --merged HEAD refs/heads/ |
>   grep -v 'any-branches-you-want-saved' |
>   git update-ref --stdin

Yeah I wanted to avoid anything else that git branch -d, as it doesn't
delete the currently checked out. I am not really familiar with
plumbing commands.

> The "--merged" option to git-branch is only used for listing. In theory
> we could use it for selection in other operations, like "git branch -d
> --merged". But I'm not sure how you'd tell it _not_ to delete the branch
> that matches HEAD.

Last time I checked git branch doesn't delete the currently checked
out branch, does it?

Adding the --merged to `git branch -d` would be awesome

Javier

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