From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: killing a branch
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:35:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060110103533.GT3389@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vr77g8jm4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
On Tue, Jan 10 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:
>
> > $ rm .git/refs/heads/branch-name
> > $ git prune
> >
> > to rid myself of the branch and associated objects. Is there a faster
> > approach?
>
> Perhaps the "official" way is
>
> $ git branch -d branch-name ;# you may need -D
> $ git prune
>
> but that essentially is the same as what you are doing. Note
So no time saved there :-)
> that having dangling objects in your repository is not a crime,
> and you do not have to religiously do "git prune" every time.
I know, it just doesn't feel nice!
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-10 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-10 10:22 killing a branch Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 10:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-10 10:35 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-01-10 10:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-10 11:26 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-10 17:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-10 18:59 ` Jens Axboe
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2006-01-12 9:57 linux
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