From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:48:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 0/6] Add prune of stale tracking branches to fetch
Message-ID: <7v3aeji2lz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090213004245.GZ30949@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> 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".

Ok, then.  Sorry for the noise.