Re: [PATCH] git remote update: New option --prune (-p)

From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 2, 2009, 13:34 UTC
Message-ID: <9b18b3110904020634i17633645ue4ba91701ea243a1@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090402123823.GA1756@pvv.org>

2009/4/2 Finn Arne Gangstad <finnag@pvv.org>:

> With the --prune (or -p) option, git remote update will also prune
> all the remotes that it fetches.  Previously, you had to do a manual git
> remote prune <remote> for each of the remotes you wanted to prune, and this
> could be tedious with many remotes.

Yay!

But one question. It seem to me odd to put this as an option to git remote update, and not git remote prune.

I mean, it seems weird that one must say:

   git remote update --prune

and one cannot say:

   git remote prune --all

especially when there is a `git remote prune` already. It seems a bit counterintuitive to find pruning actions under "update", but not all that strange to find an all "--all" option for the "prune" action.

Although to me having both be allowed and mean the same thing also makes sense.

Anyway, thanks for this regardless, I am looking forward to this functionality. :-)

Cheers, yves

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