From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 23:56:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/17] Document the [<head>...] and -- arguments to git-prune.
Message-ID: <7vzmnb9m7w.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4q5jb149.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:
>
>> The documentation for git-prune was lacking descriptions of the head
>> arguments and the -- option.
>>
>> +<head>...::
>> +        The heads to look for unreachable objects in.  This is
>> +        relative to $GIT_DIR (e.g., "HEAD", "refs/heads/master").
>> +        When unspecified, all heads are updated to match the
>> +        remote repository.
>
> ? updated to match???

Come to think of it, why would anybody want to pass heads
explicitly?  It seems to me that it would allow you to _lose_
objects referenced only from omitted branches...