# stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands 5 messages from 2007-11-07 to 2007-11-08. Participants: Jon Smirl, Catalin Marinas, Karl Hasselström. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10703 ## Jon Smirl, 2007-11-07 14:06 Subject: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands Message-ID: <9e4733910711070606t2c558ac9ob4c729d5baca8fb9@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9e4733910711070606t2c558ac9ob4c729d5baca8fb9%40mail.gmail.com ``` 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. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com ``` ## Catalin Marinas, 2007-11-07 14:57 Subject: Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/tnxwssuyug1.fsf%40pc1117.cambridge.arm.com In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711070606t2c558ac9ob4c729d5baca8fb9@mail.gmail.com> ``` "Jon Smirl" 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 Smirl, 2007-11-07 16:11 Subject: Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands Message-ID: <9e4733910711070811y72f96a90i4db9acdf93aa765c@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/9e4733910711070811y72f96a90i4db9acdf93aa765c%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On 11/7/07, Catalin Marinas wrote: > "Jon Smirl" 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 Hasselström, 2007-11-08 05:53 Subject: Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands Message-ID: <20071108055302.GA11230@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20071108055302.GA11230%40diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711070811y72f96a90i4db9acdf93aa765c@mail.gmail.com> ``` 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. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com www.treskal.com/kalle ``` ## Catalin Marinas, 2007-11-08 09:18 Subject: Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/b0943d9e0711080118q47441844hc25758f733e9af65%40mail.gmail.com 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 ```