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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] Prepare testsuite for a "git clone" that packs refs
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:54:18 -0400
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Johan Herland wrote:

> .git/packed-refs. This patch therefore teaches t5515-fetch-merge-logic
> to also remove the refs in question from the packed-refs file.
> [...]
> +			cat .git/packed-refs | \
> +			while read sha1 refname
> +			do
> +				case "$sha1" in
> +				^*) # remove peeled tags
> +					;;
> +				*)
> +					case "$refname" in
> +					refs/heads/*|\
> +					refs/remotes/rem/*|\
> +					refs/tags/*) # remove same as above
> +						;;
> +					*) # keep everything else
> +						echo "$sha1 $refname"
> +						;;
> +					esac
> +				esac
> +			done > .git/packed-refs.new
> +			mv .git/packed-refs.new .git/packed-refs

Might it not be simpler to just convert it to use plumbing to delete the
refs? Something like piping for-each-ref into update-ref -d?

-Peff