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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad•com>
To: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw•cz>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>,
	Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib•de>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve description of git-branch -d and -D in man page.
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:49:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ike1s59.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071117195144.GF5198@efreet.light.src> (Jan Hudec's message of "Sat\, 17 Nov 2007 20\:51\:44 +0100")

Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw•cz> writes:
> Some users expect that deleting a remote-tracking branch would prevent
> fetch from creating it again, so be explcit about that it's not the case.
> Also be a little more explicit about what fully merged means.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw•cz>
> ---
>
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 20:12:56 +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 20:58:20 +0300, osv@javad•com wrote:
>> > <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.
>
> Would this make the description obvious enough?

Yes, I think now it describes the actual behavior much much better, --
thanks.

-- 
Sergei.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-19  9:50 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
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 [this message]
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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