From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:39:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [Newbie] How to *actually* get rid of remote tracking branch?
Message-ID: <6D2FF44E-5D45-4341-B863-1C33C104D3EA@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <87d4ue81tv.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>


On Nov 13, 2007, at 6:58 PM, <osv@javad.com> <osv@javad.com> wrote:

>>>> So I'm not sure if it is a bug, misfeature or a feature.
>>>
>>> It doesn't make sense to delete remote-tracking branches
>>> locally if they are still present at the remote.  The main
>>> purpose of a remote-tracking branch is to be identical to the
>>> real remote branch.
>>
>> True, but it would be nice to have an option to _exclude_ some
>> branches from fetching (for example 'html' and 'man' branches
>> of git.git), while still picking up new branches automatically
>> on fetch.
>
> Guys, could you please read man git-branch? What do you think this
> example is doing?:
>
> <quote Documentation/git-branch.txt>
> Delete unneeded branch::
> +
> ------------
> $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
> $ cd my.git
> $ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man   <1>
> $ git branch -D test                                    <2>
> ------------
> +
> <1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
> </quote>
>
> That's *exactly* what I did! And it *doesn't work*! Well, it does  
> delete
> the branches, but they are automagically re-created on the next fetch,
> so "deleting" them this way is useless.

Yes, it is useless. The man page should be fixed.

	Steffen