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Re: [PATCH] git remote update: New option --prune (-p)

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Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>
Date
Apr 2, 2009, 20:18 UTC
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On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:06:56AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> [...]
> 
> I gave the patch an only cursory look, so I wouldn't comment on the
> implementation; two things I would look at in the code would be if it
> makes two connections to the remote to learn the same information (which
> would be bad)

How bad? git remote update execs "git fetch <remote>" to do the fetching part, and after that the information is lost of course. It might be possible to do a --prune option to fetch instead, and just use that directly.

>  and if it skips the pruning stage if the update stage failed
> (which would probably be a sane precaution).
Yes, this should be fixed.
- Finn Arne
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Message 10 of 15 in “git remote update: New option --prune (-p)”
  1. git remote update: New option --prune (-p)Finn Arne Gangstad, Apr 2, 2009
  2. demerphqApr 2, 2009
  3. Jeff KingApr 2, 2009
  4. demerphqApr 2, 2009
  5. Jeff KingApr 2, 2009
  6. demerphqApr 2, 2009
  7. Jeff KingApr 2, 2009
  8. demerphqApr 2, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2009
  10. Finn Arne GangstadApr 2, 2009
  11. Junio C HamanoApr 2, 2009
  12. 0/2 git remote update: New option --prune (-p)Finn Arne Gangstad, Apr 3, 2009
  13. 1/2 builtin-remote.c: Split out prune_remote as a separate function.Finn Arne Gangstad, Apr 3, 2009
  14. 2/2 git remote update: New option --pruneFinn Arne Gangstad, Apr 3, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2009

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