On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote: > .git/packed-refs. This patch therefore teaches t5515-fetch-merge-logic > to also remove the refs in question from the packed-refs file. > [...] > + cat .git/packed-refs | \ > + while read sha1 refname > + do > + case "$sha1" in > + ^*) # remove peeled tags > + ;; > + *) > + case "$refname" in > + refs/heads/*|\ > + refs/remotes/rem/*|\ > + refs/tags/*) # remove same as above > + ;; > + *) # keep everything else > + echo "$sha1 $refname" > + ;; > + esac > + esac > + done > .git/packed-refs.new > + mv .git/packed-refs.new .git/packed-refs Might it not be simpler to just convert it to use plumbing to delete the refs? Something like piping for-each-ref into update-ref -d? -Peff -- 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