From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 22:30:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] git fetch -p -t prunes all non-tag refs
Message-ID: <7vehz30wdy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110926184739.GA11745@erythro.kitwarein.com>

Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com> writes:

> When the --prune and --tags options are given to git fetch together, all
> non-tag refs are pruned because only tags are looked at and when pruning
> it appears as if the branches have disappeared and are therefore deleted
> locally.

I would call that a bug, and it is not limited to the use of "--tags". For
example, I suspect that

    $ git fetch --prune origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

would prune remote tracking branches for "origin" other than "master".