Re: Feature request: fetch --prune by default

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 16, 2012, 23:22 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAPBPrnsFk-Ww-52W-=qkTK7Yifjowx3tpsELznO4ncmqwfP_Qg@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> ...
>> So I think it would be a lot more palatable if we kept reflogs on
>> deleted branches. That, in turn, has a few open issues, such as how to
>> manage namespace conflicts (e.g., the fact that a deleted "foo" branch
>> can conflict with a new "foo/bar" branch).
>
> In the meantime, would it make sense to introduce a configuration
> variable to request this behavior?
>
> If so, should it be global?
>
> fetch.prune = always
>
> or per-remote?
>
> remote.<name>.prune = always
>
> The global option seems to be more in line with what Alexey is looking
> for, but the per-remote one is similar to the tagopt option, which is
> a similar idea.
>
> Of course, this might be just a waste of time to introduce a feature
> no one would use, in which case we obviously should not introduce such
> options.

I was reading through the backlog today and noticed that this topic veered into the "reflog graveyard" tangent. I wasn't involved in the main topic, but I think having both configuration variables, remote.<remote>.prune taking precedence over fetch.prune, as long as we make sure "fetch --no-prune" will override any configured default, is not a bad thing per-se.

As long as the users who elect to use this feature are aware of the pruning of the refs and logs, that is, but "branch [-r] -d" has been the way to lose both the branch and its log for a long time, so I do not see a big issue there, either.

The log graveyard is an independently interesting idea, which I may ping separately, but I consider it pretty much orthogonal to this particular topic.