Hi, As mentioned in a previous thread[1], git is lacking some functionality to synchronize completely with remote repositories. As an example I put my use-case; I want to backup *all* my local branches to a personal repository, and I want to remove branches that I have removed from my local repository. git push personal 'refs/heads/*' mostly does the job, but it doesn't remove anything, and that's where 'prune' comes from. Do not confuse the remote branches with the upstream ones; you could have two repositories where you want to synchronize branches to: % git push --prune --force backup1 'refs/heads/*' % git push --prune --force backup2 'refs/heads/*' I still think a 'git remote sync' would be tremendously useful, but it can actually use this --prune option. Cheers. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/184990 Since RFC: - Most of comments addressed - Documentation and tests added Felipe Contreras (4): remote: use a local variable in match_push_refs() remote: reorganize check_pattern_match() remote: refactor code into alloc_delete_ref() push: add 'prune' option Documentation/git-push.txt | 9 +++- builtin/push.c | 2 + remote.c | 107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- remote.h | 3 +- t/t5516-fetch-push.sh | 16 +++++++ transport.c | 2 + transport.h | 1 + 7 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) -- 1.7.9.1 -- 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