Re: [PATCH/RFC] remote: support --all for the prune-subcommand

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2011, 07:10 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPQNSZrfxhyA3em8TN2=d7pAHopZMgRg47baKnDT9h14=rxkA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111004070006.GA6824@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:16:08PM +0200, Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>
>> I recently needed to prune remote branches in a repo with a lot
>> of remotes, and to my surprise "git remote prune" didn't support
>> the --all option. So I added it. Perhaps this is useful for other
>> people as well?
>
> You could do:
>
>  git remote update --prune
>
> But I thought we were trying to get away from remote doing fetch-like
> things in the long term. Isn't the "right" way to do this these days:
>
>  git fetch --all --prune
>
> ?
>
> -Peff
>

I wasn't aware that fetch could prune, but yeah, that seems much better to me. Perhaps a mention of this in the "git remote prune" documentation could steer other users in the right direction?