From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:37:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve git-prune -n output
Message-ID: <7vejss6usb.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <ehvnob$tmj$1@sea.gmane.org>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Andy Parkins wrote:
>
>> prune_object() in show_only mode would previously just show the path to the
>> object that would be deleted.  The path the object is stored in shouldn't be
>> shown to users, they only know about sha1 identifiers so show that instead.
>
> This allowed to 'rm -f' [some] of what git-prune -n shows.
>
> Did anybody used that? I don't know...

Yes and probably no because the output did not have enough clues
to help picking which ones to remove.  If the command said
something like this:

	.git/objetcts/11/feed0... ;# commit 2006-08-28: WIP for	"foo"

it might have been a good clue and would have made sense, though.