From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw•cz>
To: osv@javad•com
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>,
Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib•de>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:12:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071117191256.GD5198@efreet.light.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4ue81tv.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 20:58:20 +0300, osv@javad•com wrote:
> Guys, could you please read man git-branch? What do you think this
> example is doing?:
>
> <quote Documentation/git-branch.txt>
> Delete unneeded branch::
> +
> ------------
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
> $ cd my.git
> $ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man <1>
> $ git branch -D test <2>
> ------------
> +
> <1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
> </quote>
>
> That's *exactly* what I did! And it *doesn't work*! Well, it does delete
> the branches, but they are automagically re-created on the next fetch,
> so "deleting" them this way is useless.
Of course it *does* work. It *deletes* the branches. There is not a single
word about stopping fetch getting them!
Obviously given that the example is slightly contrived, it should really
be mentioned that it does not affect fetch at all.
--
Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw•cz>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-17 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-13 14:25 [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch? Sergei Organov
2007-11-13 14:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-13 15:39 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-13 16:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 17:31 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-13 18:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-13 18:44 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-17 16:56 ` Jan Hudec
2007-11-13 16:03 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-13 17:16 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-13 17:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-13 17:58 ` osv
2007-11-13 18:17 ` Lars Hjemli
2007-11-13 18:59 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-13 18:39 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-17 19:12 ` Jan Hudec [this message]
2007-11-17 19:51 ` [PATCH] Improve description of git-branch -d and -D in man page Jan Hudec
2007-11-19 9:49 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-13 17:47 ` [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch? Sergei Organov
2007-11-13 20:01 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-13 22:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-13 22:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-13 23:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-11-13 23:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-14 1:02 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-14 5:48 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-11-13 17:40 ` Sergei Organov
2007-11-13 19:17 ` Jakub Narebski
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