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Subject: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands
Jon SmirlI'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.
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com
Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands
"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
Jon SmirlRe: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands
On 11/7/07, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> "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).
how about a 'stg gc' command that gets rid of all the inaccessible clutter?
> > -- > Catalin >
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com
Karl HasselströmRe: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands
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.
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.
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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
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On 08/11/2007, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> 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