From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-remote: make rm operation safer in mirrored repository
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:18:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090204161825.GA9428@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233763567-6155-1-git-send-email-jaysoffian@gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:06:07AM -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
> "git remote rm <repo>" is happy to remove non-remote refs (and their
> reflogs in the case of branches). This may be okay if the repository truely is a mirror, but if the
> user had done "git remote add --mirror <repo>" by accident and was just
> undoing their mistake, then they are left in a situation that is difficult to
> recover from.
>
> After this commit, "git remote rm" skips over non-remote refs. The user is
> advised on how remove branches using "git branch -d", which itself has nice
> safety checks wrt to branch removal lacking from "git remote rm". Non-remote
> non-branch refs are skipped silently.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
I like it.
Acked-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-04 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-01 14:52 git remote rm considered harmful? Jay Soffian
2009-02-01 15:48 ` [PATCH] builtin-remote: make rm operation safer in mirrored repository Jay Soffian
2009-02-02 13:29 ` Jeff King
2009-02-02 13:36 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-02 18:40 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-03 7:24 ` Jeff King
2009-02-03 7:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-03 14:38 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-03 14:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-02-03 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] builtin-remote: make rm() use properly named variable to hold return value Jay Soffian
2009-02-04 15:34 ` Jeff King
2009-02-03 17:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] builtin-remote: make rm operation safer in mirrored repository Jay Soffian
2009-02-04 15:42 ` Jeff King
2009-02-04 15:56 ` Jay Soffian
2009-02-04 16:06 ` [PATCH] " Jay Soffian
2009-02-04 16:18 ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-02-04 16:16 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Jeff King
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