From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:15:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Automatically remote prune
Message-ID: <2e24e5b90911041915o40922167ob48a8503ee262b37@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7viqdpemki.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

>  (1) The user wants to keep the remotes/<origin>/* namespace clean (iow,

[snip]

>  (2) The user does want to be careful not to lose commits that now only

This whole discussion is a conflict between those two.  The current
system does the latter, safer, thing.  John's users are getting
confused because they *think* this means the remote still has those
refs.

At best an alias that does a prune before (or after) a fetch should do.

And I notice 'git gui' has an option to "prune during fetch" -- maybe
that should be an option that is also made available to the CLI fetch.