On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 04:50:32PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I am not entirely unsympathetic to add "git branch --undelete frotz" to our > vocabulary, but then we should leave users an easy way to really remove > things, and it shouldn't be "git branch -d --i-really-mean-it frotz". > > It would probably be more like "git branch -d frotz" followed by "git > branch --purge frotz" or "git branch --purge \*" (if we name the operation > to remove cruft for undelete "purge", that is). Why would we need that? Even now, it is not enough to do "git branch -D frotz; git gc --prune". You need to expire the reflog, since HEAD may still have a reference to it. So instead you would need git branch -D frotz git reflog expire --expire=now HEAD frotz git gc --prune Purging a branch becomes just a special case of purging anything from history. Clemens
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