Re: Errors when updating an old git.git repository
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
- Date
- Dec 27, 2006, 00:58 UTC
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Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi> writes:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes: > ... >> So, you _asked_ git to fetch these three branches! > > Well, that's true from a technical standpoint, but I didn't add > those lines to .git/remotes/origin, git did when I cloned the > repository. When one updates tracking branches and a branch has > been deleted in the remote repository, I think it wouldn't be > insane to expect git also to remove the line (if not the actual > branch). If that is not desired, I'd rather the message wasn't an > error but something along the lines of "note: remote branch jc/bind > no longer exists, please update .git/remotes/origin". It's bit odd > to get errors in a situation that (given the assumption) isn't > erroneous.
I would be a bit reluctant to remove tracking automagically, but I fully agree that a comment like that would be needed.
Patches?