[RFC/PATCH 0/3] push: add 'prune' option

Hi,

As mentioned in a previous thread[1], git is lacking some functionality to synchronize completely with remote repositories.

As an example I put my use-case; I want to backup *all* my local branches to a personal repository, and I want to remove branches that I have removed from my local repository. git push personal 'refs/heads/*' mostly does the job, but it doesn't remove anything, and that's where 'prune' comes from.

Do not confuse the remote branches with the upstream ones; you could have two repositories where you want to synchronize branches to: % git push --prune --force backup1 'refs/heads/*' % git push --prune --force backup2 'refs/heads/*'

I still think a 'git remote sync' would be tremendously useful, but it can actually use this --prune option.

I know, documentation and testing are missing, but perhaps there will be comments on the code itself.

Cheers.

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184990

Felipe Contreras (3):
  remote: use a local variable in match_push_refs()
  remote: reorganize check_pattern_match()
  push: add 'prune' option

 builtin/push.c |    2 +
 remote.c       |   91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 remote.h       |    3 +-
 transport.c    |    2 +
 transport.h    |    1 +
 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)