Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > >> When encountering broken symrefs, such as a stale remote HEAD (which can >> happen if the active branch was renamed in the remote), it is more >> helpful to remove those symrefs than to exit with an error. > > I think this depends on the perspective. One side of me says that a > remote HEAD that points at refs/remotes/origin/topic that no longer > exists is still giving me a valuable information and it should take > a conscious action by the user to remove it, or evne better to > repoint it to a more useful place. And from that point of view, > removing is not all that helpful. Keeping them and not allowing > them to exit with an error would be a real improvement. > > On the other hand, I can certainly understand a view that considers > that such a dangling symbolic ref is merely a cruft like any other > cruft, and "gc" is all about removing cruft. > > It just feels to me that this is a bit more valuable than other > kinds of cruft, but maybe it is just me. Sorry, it is a bad habit of me to send out without concluding remark, leaving the recipient hanging without knowing what the next step should be. I meant to say that I plan to, and I indeed did, queue these 4 without changes. I am not opposed to the removal so strongly to reject [4/4]. The above comment was that I just do not know if this is the right thing to do, or it will be hurting users. Thanks. > >> >> This fixes https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/423 >> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> >> --- >> builtin/prune.c | 12 +++++++++++- >> t/t6500-gc.sh | 2 +- >> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/builtin/prune.c b/builtin/prune.c >> index d6f664f..337b12a 100644 >> --- a/builtin/prune.c >> +++ b/builtin/prune.c >> @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ >> #include "reachable.h" >> #include "parse-options.h" >> #include "progress.h" >> +#include "refs.h" >> >> static const char * const prune_usage[] = { >> N_("git prune [-n] [-v] [--expire <time>] [--] [<head>...]"), >> @@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ static void remove_temporary_files(const char *path) >> int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> { >> struct rev_info revs; >> + struct string_list broken_symrefs = STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP; >> struct progress *progress = NULL; >> const struct option options[] = { >> OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, N_("do not remove, show only")), >> @@ -110,6 +112,7 @@ int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> OPT_END() >> }; >> char *s; >> + int i; >> >> expire = ULONG_MAX; >> save_commit_buffer = 0; >> @@ -136,7 +139,14 @@ int cmd_prune(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) >> if (show_progress) >> progress = start_progress_delay(_("Checking connectivity"), 0, 0, 2); >> >> - mark_reachable_objects(&revs, 1, expire, progress, NULL); >> + revs.ignore_missing = 1; >> + mark_reachable_objects(&revs, 1, expire, progress, &broken_symrefs); >> + for (i = 0; i < broken_symrefs.nr; i++) { >> + char *path = broken_symrefs.items[i].string; >> + printf("Removing stale ref %s\n", path); >> + if (!show_only && delete_ref(path, NULL, REF_NODEREF)) >> + die("Could not remove stale ref %s", path); >> + } >> stop_progress(&progress); >> for_each_loose_file_in_objdir(get_object_directory(), prune_object, >> prune_cruft, prune_subdir, NULL); >> diff --git a/t/t6500-gc.sh b/t/t6500-gc.sh >> index b736774..0ae4271 100755 >> --- a/t/t6500-gc.sh >> +++ b/t/t6500-gc.sh >> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ test_expect_success 'gc -h with invalid configuration' ' >> test_i18ngrep "[Uu]sage" broken/usage >> ' >> >> -test_expect_failure 'gc removes broken refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' ' >> +test_expect_success 'gc removes broken refs/remotes/<name>/HEAD' ' >> git init remote && >> ( >> cd remote && -- 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