Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>> Not quite. Obviously all parents of p and p^ will continue to exist.
>> I.e. deleting branch B will cause all commits from p till the tip of B
>> (except p itself) to vanish. Keeping p implies that the whole chain of
>> parents below p will continue to exist and be reachable. That's the way
>> a git repository works.
>And that's what I called stupid in my earlier reply to you. Either you
>have proper branches or tags keeping P around, or deleting B brings
>everything not reachable through other branches or tags (or reflog)
>away too. Otherwise there is no point making a dangling origin link
>valid.
Well, the principle of least surprise dictates that they should be kept
by gc as described above, however...
I can envision an option to gc say "--drop-weak-links" which does
exactly what you describe.
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Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
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those who can count, and those who can't."
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