From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel•com>,
Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail•com>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] fetch --prune performance problem
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:18:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7c17abw4.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250619033746.GA1801319@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:37:46 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:
> The final fetch output looks like:
>
> - [deleted] (none) -> origin/branches
> - [deleted] (none) -> origin/main
> (refs/remotes/origin/HEAD has become dangling)
> - [deleted] (none) -> origin/other
>
> and we can see that the deletion of "main" is what caused the dangling.
>
> That said, I'm not sure I care that much. I didn't even know we had this
> dangling message, and it's been around for over 15 years!
Same here. I agree that the new output, while it may look prettier,
loses information. I agree with your conclusion that the user who
really cares can check with symbolic-ref themselves.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-19 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-18 21:08 [RFC PATCH 0/2] fetch --prune performance problem Phil Hord
2025-06-18 21:08 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] fetch-prune: optimize dangling-ref reporting Phil Hord
2025-06-18 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-06-18 23:18 ` Jacob Keller
2025-06-19 4:00 ` Jeff King
2025-06-19 11:01 ` Lidong Yan
2025-06-19 14:41 ` Lidong Yan
2025-06-18 21:08 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] refs: remove old refs_warn_dangling_symref Phil Hord
2025-06-18 23:15 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] fetch --prune performance problem Jacob Keller
2025-06-19 3:37 ` Jeff King
2025-06-19 17:18 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
[not found] ` <CABURp0p4d0JPg=-cW1OZdFQJ+vNT_0PDd9Rv3oz6toFGqGv5=g@mail.gmail.com>
2025-06-23 23:32 ` Jacob Keller
2025-06-23 23:41 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <CABURp0q-1FGmD+PJeSQ=xvyDN6ZYn1O7Fh8i1OojfD2WQCqgcw@mail.gmail.com>
2025-06-23 23:46 ` Jacob Keller
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