SF CLI Seems to not support wildcard character in destructive changes for flow metadata type #3485
Description
Summary
When attempting to run --pre-destructive-changes on a flow, the sf cli seems to require me to enter each flow version, the issue with this is that each environment may have a uncertain number of flow versions and i would have to modify the destructive changes file for each environment. The Salesforce Documentation referring to the Flow Metadata type says it supports wildcard (*) in the package xml so i assumed this would work in destructive changes.
Steps To Reproduce
- Create a new salesforce project
- generate a scratch org
- Create a Flow with multiple flow versions in a Salesforce org and activate one of the versions
- in your manifest directory create an packagexml file with no types and call empty.xml(not deploying anything)
- in your manifest directory create a destructivechange file called issuePost.xml and add your flow name as so
SampleFlow-* - run this command
sf project deploy start --dry-run --verbose -o scratch --manifest manifest/empty.xml --pre-destructive-changes=manifest/issuePost.xml --ignore-warnings --ignore-conflicts - You should see that it says it succeeds but nothing happens
────────── Deploying Metadata (dry-run) ──────────
Deploying (dry-run) v65.0 metadata to test-zs6gy7ad4esb@example.com using the v65.0 SOAP API.
✔ Preparing 142ms
◯ Waiting for the org to respond - Skipped
◯ Deploying Metadata - Skipped
◯ Running Tests - Skipped
◯ Updating Source Tracking - Skipped
✔ Done 0ms
Status: Succeeded
Deploy ID: 0Afcf000005uGyVCAU
Target Org: test-zs6gy7ad4esb@example.com
Deploy URL: https://connect-connect-3149-dev-ed.scratch.my.salesforce.com/lightning/setup/DeployStatus/page?address=%2Fchangemgmt%2FmonitorDeploymentsDetails.apexp%3FasyncId%3D0Afcf000005uGyVCAU%26retURL%3D%252Fchangemgmt%252FmonitorDeployment.apexp
Size: 524 B of ~39 MB limit
Files: 2 of 10,000 limit
Elapsed Time: 143ms
Dry-run complete.
Expected result
I expected to see all of the flow versions get removed
Actual result
Nothing?
Additional information
System Information
zsh terminal
{
"architecture": "darwin-arm64",
"cliVersion": "@salesforce/cli/2.118.20",
"nodeVersion": "node-v22.21.1",
"osVersion": "Darwin 24.6.0",
"rootPath": "/Users/mgagne/.local/share/sf/client/2.118.20-aa275e9",
"shell": "zsh",
"pluginVersions": [
"@oclif/plugin-autocomplete 3.2.39 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-commands 4.1.38 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-help 6.2.36 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-not-found 3.2.73 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-plugins 5.4.54 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-search 1.2.36 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-update 4.7.16 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-version 2.2.36 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-warn-if-update-available 3.1.53 (core)",
"@oclif/plugin-which 3.2.42 (core)",
"@salesforce/cli 2.118.20 (core)",
"agent 1.26.1 (core)",
"apex 3.9.5 (core)",
"api 1.3.6 (core)",
"auth 3.9.26 (core)",
"code-analyzer 5.8.0 (user) published 17 days ago (Mon Dec 29 2025)",
"data 4.0.67 (core)",
"deploy-retrieve 3.24.5 (core)",
"dev 2.5.1 (user) published 422 days ago (Tue Nov 19 2024)",
"info 3.4.100 (core)",
"limits 3.3.74 (core)",
"marketplace 1.3.8 (core)",
"omnistudio-migration-tool 1.7.0 (user) published 69 days ago (Fri Nov 07 2025)",
"org 5.9.53 (core)",
"packaging 2.24.5 (core)",
"schema 3.3.90 (core)",
"settings 2.4.54 (core)",
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"templates 56.4.0 (core)",
"trust 3.7.113 (core)",
"user 3.6.44 (core)",
"@salesforce/sfdx-plugin-lwc-test 1.2.1 (user) published 467 days ago (Fri Oct 04 2024)",
"@salesforce/sfdx-scanner 4.12.0 (user) published 260 days ago (Tue Apr 29 2025)"
]
}