From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:16:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Make "git remote rm <remote>" remove file refs/remotes/<remote>/HEAD
Message-ID: <200803080816.10811.tlikonen@iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <7vlk4uyoln.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano kirjoitti:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> > I think "update-ref -d" should remove the ref without dereferencing
> > anyway.  How about not doing your patch at all (you would need to
> > manually remove the symref in "prune" codepath as well), and
> > instead doing this?
> >
> > I do not know how this reacts when the tracked HEAD points at a ref
> > that lexicographically sorts earlier, say branch "A".
>
> And it turns out it does not react very well.  You would want to do
> something like this on top of that one.

This turned out to be much more complicated than just deleting a file. 
Thank you, these patches seem to work (at least from user's point of 
view).