On Nov 13, 2007, at 6:58 PM, <osv@xxxxxxxxx> <osv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So I'm not sure if it is a bug, misfeature or a feature.
It doesn't make sense to delete remote-tracking branches
locally if they are still present at the remote. The main
purpose of a remote-tracking branch is to be identical to the
real remote branch.
True, but it would be nice to have an option to _exclude_ some
branches from fetching (for example 'html' and 'man' branches
of git.git), while still picking up new branches automatically
on fetch.
Guys, could you please read man git-branch? What do you think this
example is doing?:
<quote Documentation/git-branch.txt>
Delete unneeded branch::
+
------------
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
$ cd my.git
$ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man <1>
$ git branch -D test <2>
------------
+
<1> Delete remote-tracking branches "todo", "html", "man"
</quote>
That's *exactly* what I did! And it *doesn't work*! Well, it does
delete
the branches, but they are automagically re-created on the next fetch,
so "deleting" them this way is useless.
Yes, it is useless. The man page should be fixed.
Steffen
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