Re: [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?
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- Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
- Date
- Nov 17, 2007, 16:56 UTC
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- <20071117165657.GC5198@efreet.light.src>
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- <874pfq7zpg.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 21:44:11 +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Sergei Organov wrote: > > > >> Sorry, but *I* didn't *explicitly* fetch it _again_! > >> > >> 1. I cloned git.git repo making no custom steps. > > > > Which means that you wanted to track that repository. Yes, the complete > > repository. Not a single branch. Not all branches except a single one. > > > >> 2. I decided I don't need to track some of branches. > > > > The you should have done that. > > I think I did my best to try to do that (basing my attempts on current > git documentation). Isn't it? > > > But that is different from "I decided to delete the tracking > > _branch_". > > Yes, but the question is *why*? Isn't it an obvious application of > deleting tracking branch?
No, it's not. Fetching has to bring you any heads that were newly created in the remote repo. It can't tell whether a head is new since last fetch or you just for whatever reason didn't have the tracking branch before.
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> And, as I've already asked in another > sub-thread of this one, what the following example in the man git-branch > is supposed to achieve?: > > <quote Documentation/git-branch.txt> > Delete unneeded branch:: > + > ------------ > $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git > $ cd my.git > $ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man <1> > $ git branch -D test <2> > ------------ > + > <1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man" > </quote> > > Sorry, but I still believe that it's not me who needs fixing.
That documentation is precise. But it could maybe contain a footnote saying, that if you remove a tracking branch, next fetch will create it again unless you reconfigure it not to.
-- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>