From: Catalin Marinas Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:18:35 GMT Subject: Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20071108055302.GA11230@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> On 08/11/2007, Karl Hasselström wrote: > 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