Re: [RFC/PATCH] fetch: make --prune configurable

From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
Date: Jul 8, 2013, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20130708190125.GX9161@serenity.lan>
In-Reply-To: <1373288217-20580-1-git-send-email-mschub@elegosoft.com>

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 02:56:57PM +0200, Michael Schubert wrote:

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> $gmane/201715 brought up the idea to fetch --prune by default.
> Since --prune is a "potentially destructive operation" (Git doesn't
> keep reflogs for deleted references yet), we don't want to prune
> without users consent.
> 
> To accommodate users who want to either prune always or when fetching
> from a particular remote, add two new configuration variables
> "fetch.prune" and "remote.<name>.prune":
> 
>  - "fetch.prune" allows to enable prune for all fetch operations.
> 
>  - "remote.<name>.prune" allows to change the behaviour per remote.

Should this be "remote.<name>.pruneFetch"? I'd quite like to be able to configure --prune for git-push as well (I just haven't got around to actually doing anything about it yet...) and it might be better to be explicit in the remote.<name> section from the start.

I'm not sure it's necessary since we already have "remote" and "pushremote" so we could have "prune" and "pushprune" but perhaps it's worth considering.