Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2007, 09:18 UTC
Message-ID: <b0943d9e0711080118q47441844hc25758f733e9af65@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071108055302.GA11230@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On 08/11/2007, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:

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> On 2007-11-07 11:11:42 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > how about a 'stg gc' command that gets rid of all the inaccessible
> > clutter?
>
> "stg assimilate" already has the job of fixing up stuff after the user
> has used git commands to move HEAD around. I think it would make sense
> to teach it to do this too -- and then rename it "stg repair" or
> something. That way, there's one command to fix every kind of "damage"
> that git can do to stgit.

"repair" sounds better than "gc" (which might also be confused with the "git gc" command).

> Alternatively, "stg branch --create" and "stg init" and whoever else
> is bothered by the clutter could simply remove it themselves. That
> would be even more user-friendly, I guess.

I did some fixes for branch --delete but, since I use StGIT almost exclusively, haven't thought that we need to relax the branch creation as well.

-- 
Catalin