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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Working with remotes with (too) many branches
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:43:03 -0600
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Hi Philip,

Philip J=C3=A4genstedt wrote:

> It seems to me that if one starts out with all branches and then
> "set-branches main footopic", one really does want all other refs to
> go away on the next fetch.

I would expect set-branches to remove the remote-tracking branches
that are no longer relevant itself, actually.

Martin, does this seem sensible to you?  If so, I'll be happy to look
into it in the next few days (or I'll be even happier someone else
gets to it first).

Hope that helps,
Jonathan