From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:37:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 0/6] Add prune of stale tracking branches to fetch
Message-ID: <7v7i3vi33b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1234482880-1316-1-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org>

"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.