Hi Ulrich, On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> During a rebase that turned out to be heavier than expected 8-( I > decided to keep the old branch by creating a temporary branch name to > the commit of the branch to rebase (which was still the old commit ID at > that time). > > When done rebasing, I attached a new name to the new (rebased) branch, > deleted the old name (pointing at the same rebase commit), then > recreated the old branch from the temporary branch name (created to > remember the commit id). > > When I wanted to delete the temporary branch (which is of no use now), I > got a message that the branch is unmerged. This is actually as designed, at least for performance reasons (it is not exactly cheap to figure out whether a given commit is contained in any other branch). > I think if more than one branches are pointing to the same commit, one > should be allowed to delete all but the last one without warning. Do you > agree? No, respectfully disagree, because I have found myself with branches pointing to the same commit, even if the branches served different purposes. I really like the current behavior where you can delete a branch with `git branch -d` as long as it is contained in its upstream branch. Ciao, Johannes
