Re: [PATCH] builtin-remote: make rm operation safer in mirrored repository

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:40:14PM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
>
>> This version adds a test case. I also noticed that the check I'd added to
>> add_branch_for_removal() was generating spurious warnings because I'd added it
>> in the wrong place; this version moves the check below the
>> remote_find_tracking() checks.
>
> This version looks fine to me, and I would be OK with it being applied.
>
> However, I have one small nit. The output produces long lines with a lot
> of repeated text (assuming you have multiple matched branches, which is
> likely if you have a mirrored setup). So maybe it would be nicer to have
> something like:
>
>   warning: non-remote branches were not removed; you can delete them with:
>           git branch -d master
>           git branch -d next
>           git branch -d topic
>
> which is a little more obvious (to me, anyway), and allows you to cut
> and paste if you really did want to delete them.

Thanks for a review, and I actually shared that exact nit when I first
read the patch.  It would be a very good change to collect them in a list
and show a single warning at the end (I do not have particular preference
about the cut & paste-ability either way myself).