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From: Sergei Organov <osv@javad•com>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:39:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve86889o.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fhcdpv$9u3$1@ger.gmane.org> (Jakub Narebski's message of "Tue\, 13 Nov 2007 15\:53\:52 +0100")

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com> writes:

> [Cc: Sergei Organov <osv@javad•com>, git@vger•kernel.org]
> Please CC git mailing list, git@vger•kernel.org
>
> Sergei Organov wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I want to get rid of origin/pu remote tracking branch. What do I do? I
>> RTFM git-branch. What does it suggest?
>> 
>> git branch -d -r origin/pu
>> 
>> So far so good. However, it doesn't seem to work in practice:
>  
>
>> $ git branch -d -r origin/pu
>> Deleted remote branch origin/pu.
>> $ git remote show origin
>> * remote origin
>>   URL: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
>>   Remote branch(es) merged with 'git pull' while on branch master
>>     master
>>   New remote branches (next fetch will store in remotes/origin)
>>     pu
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What???  
>>   Tracked remote branches
>>     html maint man master next todo
>
> Check out what do you have in .git/config file, in the [remote "origin"]
> section. Most probably (if you cloned this repository using new enough git)
> you have wildcard refspec there, which means that git would pick all new
> branches when fetching / pulling from given repository.

Sure, I've cloned git.git using rather recent git, so .git/config has:

      fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

> The wildcard refspec is not documented adequately, so I'm not sure if
> adding
>
>         fetch = !refs/heads/pu
>
> would help, or do you have to replace wildcard refspec by explicit list of
> branches you want to fetch.

Isn't "git branch -d -r" supposed to do whatever magic is required to
get rid of the remote branch? Currently it seems like a bug introduced
by addition of wildcards refspecs, right?

-- 
Sergei.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-13 15:39 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 [this message]
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
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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