Re: [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Nov 13, 2007, 16:03 UTC
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- <200711131703.16357.jnareb@gmail.com>
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Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes: >> Sergei Organov wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>> $ 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/*
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> 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?
No, the '-r' part translates 'pu' into 'refs/remotes/origin/pu', and the '-d' option removes branch locally. It is meant I think to remove tracking of branches which were dropped in remote, as I think that wildcard refspec does create new branches, but do not delete dropped branches.
So I'm not sure if it is a bug, misfeature or a feature.
Can anyone better versed in wildcard refspecs speak up, please?
-- Jakub Narebski Poland