Re: [PATCH] Detached HEAD (experimental)

> Similarly, I think this use case of "just tracking" should support
> branches disappearing from the remote repository without the user
> having to edit any config file. If there are entries that are
> automatically added by git-clone that should be removed later, that
> should happen automatically. A recent thread suggested adding an error
> message instructing the user to delete the entries. That's again
> unkind to a user who doesn't really want to learn git, but just wants
> to get at the most recent version of some code that happens to be
> available through git.
> 
> That disappearing branches cause problems requiring manual cleanup of
> configuration files is one of the reasons that we are not using any
> feature branches in the "central" cairo repository, for example, (we
> do have branches for release maintenance). I'd really like to be able
> to put some feature branches there for shared work, (rather than
> forcing that work out to separate personal repositories as we do
> know).
> 
> Maybe the configuration file entries added by git-clone need to be
> marked in some way to distinguish them from manually added entries, so
> that we would feel more comfortable automatically removing them when a
> remote branch has disappeared.