Re: [BUG?] git fetch -p -t prunes all non-tag refs

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 12:33:22PM +0200, Carlos Martín Nieto wrote:

> > The latter. If I say:
> > 
> >   git fetch --prune origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
> > 
> > and refs/heads/master doesn't exist on the remote, I would expect
> > refs/remotes/origin/master to be deleted locally. And that naturally
> > extends to:
> > 
> >   git fetch --prune origin refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> 
> I have some code locally that solves this second part. If we are given
> refspecs on the command-line, it will try to match against that instead
> of blindly trusting what get_stale_heads tells us. I'm looking into
> putting the logic into get_stale_heads so that we can trust it.
> 
> The first part might be more complicated. If the remote head doesn't
> exist, get_fetch_map dies. It does take a missing_ok flag, so it might
> be as easy as passing 1 there; but I'm not sure what that would do for a
> non-prune fetch.

Let's not worry about the first one for now, then. It is a natural
extension of the other, but in practice, I don't expect people to really
care that much about auto-pruning one specific ref. Instead, they want
to prune wildcards. So as long as it works in the wildcard case, that is
a good start.

> >       # backup to a repository where our objects will be shared
> >       # with other related backups. So we must only use our slice of the
> >       # ref namespace.
> >       git push --mirror backup-repo +refs/*:refs/`hostname`/*
> 
> Is --mirror needed there? I would have thought that
> refs/*:refs/`hostname`/* would do the same by itself.

I wanted it to auto-prune the remote branches. So if I delete
"refs/heads/foo" locally, then it will be deleted from the backup on the
next push. Regular "push" will not do that, but --mirror will.

-Peff