[PATCH 0/4] 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.

Cheers.

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

Since RFC:

 - Most of comments addressed
 - Documentation and tests added

Felipe Contreras (4):
  remote: use a local variable in match_push_refs()
  remote: reorganize check_pattern_match()
  remote: refactor code into alloc_delete_ref()
  push: add 'prune' option

 Documentation/git-push.txt |    9 +++-
 builtin/push.c             |    2 +
 remote.c                   |  107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 remote.h                   |    3 +-
 t/t5516-fetch-push.sh      |   16 +++++++
 transport.c                |    2 +
 transport.h                |    1 +
 7 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)