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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-remote.txt: remove description for useless -n option

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OMOlivier Marin <dkr+ml.git@free.fr>
Date
Jun 9, 2008, 00:43 UTC
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Junio C Hamano a écrit :
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>> From: Olivier Marin <dkr@freesurf.fr>
>>
>> This option comes from the original git-remote.perl script and is not
>> used nor needed in the current builtin.
> 
> Is this something we would want to document as a new feature, or just a
> regression that makes the existing feature unusable when disconnected from
> the network that needs to be fixed in the code?
OK, I restored the original behaviour for "git remote show", patch will follow.

But for "git remote prune" I don't no what to do. The perl script behaviour was to delete all refs for the remote when called with -n. It seems really dangerous to me, especially if I have no connection to restore them. The current builtin doesn't honor the flag and with my patch it just does nothing.

So, do you prefere that I remove the documentation for git remote prune -n or restore the old behaviour that was probably never used (but maybe I'm wrong)?

Olivier.
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Message 5 of 36 in “remote show/prune: strange -n(--dry-run) option.”
  1. Olivier MarinJun 8, 2008
  2. Documentation/git-remote.txt: remove description for useless -n optionOlivier Marin, Jun 8, 2008
  3. Documentation/git-remote.txt: remove description for useless -n optiondkr+ml.git@free.fr, Jun 8, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 8, 2008
  5. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  6. remote show: fix the -n optionOlivier Marin, Jun 9, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinJun 9, 2008
  8. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  9. Johannes SchindelinJun 9, 2008
  10. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinJun 9, 2008
  12. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  13. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 9, 2008
  15. remote show: fix the -n optionOlivier Marin, Jun 9, 2008
  16. Johannes SchindelinJun 9, 2008
  17. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinJun 9, 2008
  19. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  20. builtin-remote: make reuse of code easier by not die()ingJohannes Schindelin, Jun 9, 2008
  21. Olivier MarinJun 9, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2008
  23. Shawn O. PearceJun 10, 2008
  24. Johannes SchindelinJun 10, 2008
  25. 0/4 remote show/prune improvementOlivier Marin, Jun 10, 2008
  26. 1/4 remote show: fix the -n optionOlivier Marin, Jun 10, 2008
  27. 2/4 builtin-remote: split show_or_prune() in two separate functionsOlivier Marin, Jun 10, 2008
  28. 3/4 remote prune: print the list of pruned branchesOlivier Marin, Jun 10, 2008
  29. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2008
  30. Olivier MarinJun 12, 2008
  31. 4/4 remote show: list tracked remote branches with -nOlivier Marin, Jun 10, 2008
  32. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2008
  33. Olivier MarinJun 10, 2008
  34. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008
  35. Olivier MarinJun 10, 2008
  36. Jakub NarebskiJun 10, 2008

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