From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:57:34 GMT
Subject: Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands
Message-ID: <tnxwssuyug1.fsf@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711070606t2c558ac9ob4c729d5baca8fb9@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've used git commands to delete several branches that had stgit
> active on it.  Doing that has left a bunch of clutter in the .git
> directory. Is there a stgit command to remove all the clutter from
> branches that no longer exist? I'd like to use the branch names again
> but the clutter is interfering.

You can create the branch back with GIT and run "stg branch --delete
--force", though I don't guarantee it will work (BTW, I only recently
relaxed the branch deletion rules in StGIT so that it doesn't complain
of missing files and completes the operation, so you should use the
latest HEAD).

-- 
Catalin