Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 30, 2008, 03:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20080630033034.GB18930@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vod5kd3im.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 01:55:13AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> * jk/maint-fetch-ref-hier (Thu Jun 26 23:59:50 2008 -0400) 1 commit
>  + fetch: report local storage errors in status table
> 
> When the remote used to have "foo" branch but now has "foo/bar", fetch
> refuses to delete the existing remote tracking branch "foo" to create a
> new remote tracking branch "foo/bar", but the error message was
> confusing.

Where do we want to take this? The conversation went something like:

   me: here's a patch where we hint about "remote prune"
  you: why not just fix the refs, it's no worse than a rewind
   me: we kill reflogs, so it is different than a rewind
  you: oh, right

So I'm not sure if that was "Oh, right, it's not a good idea to remove the conflicting ref" or "Oh, right, but it's probably still fine."

-Peff