On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (1) The user wants to keep the remotes/<origin>/* namespace clean (iow, [snip] > (2) The user does want to be careful not to lose commits that now only This whole discussion is a conflict between those two. The current system does the latter, safer, thing. John's users are getting confused because they *think* this means the remote still has those refs. At best an alias that does a prune before (or after) a fetch should do. And I notice 'git gui' has an option to "prune during fetch" -- maybe that should be an option that is also made available to the CLI fetch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html