Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> writes: > Running the simple command `git fetch --prune --tags origin` will delete > every single remote branch refs/remotes/origin/*, with the sole > exception of refs/remotes/origin/HEAD. This is wildly unexpected > behavior. This was reproduced on the tip of the next branch, with > version git version 1.7.2.2.440.g49ea7. I suspect "--prune --tags" behaved like that from the very beginning of the appearance of "--prune", and also it is not limited to --tags. With this: [remote "origin"] url = $over_there fetch = refs/heads/master:refs/heads/origin fetch = refs/heads/next:refs/heads/next "git fetch --prune origin master" would probably remove your local next. get_stale_heads() seems to assume that it has the list of all existing refs from the remote side available to make its decision. Unless the fetch is done using a list of refs configured with remote.<name>.fetch, I do not think that assumption holds. f2ef607 (remote: refactor some logic into get_stale_heads(), 2009-11-10) f360d84 (builtin-fetch: add --prune option, 2009-11-10) -- 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