Re: [JGIT PATCH 0/6] Add prune of stale tracking branches to fetch

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
>> 
>> > This series teaches "jgit fetch" how to prune stale tracking branches
>> > that have been removed from the remote repository.  We can now do
>> > both a fetch and a prune in a single network connection.
>> 
>> I am not sure if that is a good feature.
>> 
>> The user at the local side may well be using the (now stale) tracking
>> branch as an achoring point to remember where his own development forked
>> from, and that may be the reason he is fetching but not running "remote
>> prune", not to lose that anchor.
>
> Well.
>
> Its off by default.
>
> You have to ask for it with "jgit fetch --prune origin".