From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Lear Subject: Re: A couple branch questions Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:35 -0600 Message-ID: <18355.42595.377377.433309@lisa.zopyra.com> References: <76718490802131739n22c56cadn39c1871ea1762dc3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jay Soffian" , "Git Mailing List" To: "David Symonds" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 14 03:25:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPTmy-00014k-Tc for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:25:29 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752130AbYBNCYj (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:24:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752092AbYBNCYi (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:24:38 -0500 Received: from mail.zopyra.com ([65.68.225.25]:61462 "EHLO zopyra.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752081AbYBNCYi (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:24:38 -0500 Received: (from rael@localhost) by zopyra.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id m1E2Oaa21052; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:36 -0600 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 17:45:16 (-0800) David Symonds writes: >On Feb 13, 2008 5:39 PM, Jay Soffian wrote: >> 1) git-branch -d complains if hasn't been >> merged to HEAD. Shouldn't it really only complain if >> hasn't been merged into any local branch? i.e., as long as >> has been merged, why care to which branch? > >It's easy to mistype branch names, and you typically only delete them >after you merge them into your current branch. If you're really sure, >just pass -D instead of -d. How does that answer the question posed? Bill