From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:25:55 GMT
Subject: Re: killing a branch
Message-ID: <7vr77g8jm4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060110102207.GP3389@suse.de>

Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:

> $ rm .git/refs/heads/branch-name
> $ git prune
>
> to rid myself of the branch and associated objects. Is there a faster
> approach?

Perhaps the "official" way is

	$ git branch -d branch-name ;# you may need -D
        $ git prune

but that essentially is the same as what you are doing.  Note
that having dangling objects in your repository is not a crime,
and you do not have to religiously do "git prune" every time.