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Re: Simple questions on GIT usage.

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 16:56 UTC
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Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
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>>>>>>"Andreas" == Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> 
> 
> Andreas> man git-branch
> 
> Andreas> It will tell you about its -d and -D options.
> 
> It will?  My manpage has no -d or -D option for git-branch.
>

Ah. It's the help output that has them. I've submitted a patch to add them to the man-page though, so it should show up soonish.

> And I've been looking for something like that too.  If I want to
> abandon a what-if branch, how do I make sure that the branch and all
> objects are deleted?
>

git branch -D branchname git prune

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