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[BUG?] remote prune origin interacts badly with clone --mirror and multiple remotes

From
Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date
Jun 20, 2013, 21:23 UTC
Message-ID
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[git version: next as of yesterday afternoon]

If I clone a repo with git clone --mirror, and add other remotes later, 'git remote prune origin' deletes all branches and tags of the other remotes.

Easily repeatable example:
[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = true
	logallrefupdates = false
[remote "origin"]
	url = git://github.com/git/git.git
	fetch = +refs/*:refs/*
	mirror = true
[remote "peff"]
	url = git://github.com/peff/git.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/peff/*

'git remote prune origin' will delete all peff's branches in this case. I'm guessing the wildcards refs/* and refs/remotes/peff/* interact badly in some place, and I'm trying to understand builtin/remote.c to see if I can fix it, but haven't gotten very far yet.

git fetch --prune origin and git remote update --prune also show this behaviour.

git remote prune peff does not delete non-peff branches in this scenario, further strengthening my belief that the refs/* and refs/remotes/peff/* wildcards interact badly with prune.

Or is this considered normal behaviour and is what I'm trying to do simply unsupported? In that case a warning would be welcome when adding remotes to a --mirror'ed repository.

-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
www.kaarsemaker.net
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Message 1 of 23 in “[BUG?] remote prune origin interacts badly with clone --mirror and multiple remotes”
  1. Dennis KaarsemakerJun 20, 2013
  2. remote: make prune work for mixed mirror/non-mirror reposDennis Kaarsemaker, Jun 20, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2013
  4. Dennis KaarsemakerJun 20, 2013
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2013
  6. Dennis KaarsemakerJun 20, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2013
  8. Jeff KingJun 20, 2013
  9. Dennis KaarsemakerJun 20, 2013
  10. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2013
  11. remote: make prune work for mixed mirror/non-mirror reposDennis Kaarsemaker, Jun 20, 2013
  12. 0/3 Handling overlapping refspecs slightly smarterDennis Kaarsemaker, Jun 21, 2013
  13. 1/3 remote: Add warnings about mixin --mirror and other remotesDennis Kaarsemaker, Jun 21, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2013
  15. Dennis KaarsemakerJun 23, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2013
  17. Dennis KaarsemakerJun 23, 2013
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 23, 2013
  19. Dennis KaarsemakerJun 26, 2013
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 26, 2013
  21. 2/3 remote: Add test for prune and mixed --mirror and normal remotesDennis Kaarsemaker, Jun 21, 2013
  22. 3/3 remote: don't prune when detecting overlapping refspecsDennis Kaarsemaker, Jun 21, 2013
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 21, 2013

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