From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Miller Subject: Delete branch during fast-import Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:49:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20130917174954.GA28563@home.jasonmmiller.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 17 20:03:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VLzcx-0005uY-RX for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:03:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753301Ab3IQSDl (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:03:41 -0400 Received: from fed1rmfepi107.cox.net ([68.230.241.138]:47735 "EHLO fed1rmfepi107.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753269Ab3IQSDk (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:03:40 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 646 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:03:40 EDT Received: from fed1rmimpo210 ([68.230.241.161]) by fed1rmfepo101.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.09 201-2260-151-124-20120717) with ESMTP id <20130917175253.XIPV3892.fed1rmfepo101.cox.net@fed1rmimpo210> for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:52:53 -0400 Received: from localhost ([70.191.80.19]) by fed1rmimpo210 with cox id SHst1m00D0R0GNW01HstgD; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:52:53 -0400 X-CT-Class: Clean X-CT-Score: 0.00 X-CT-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.523896F5.0157,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0 X-CT-Spam: 0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=drIF/Sc4 c=1 sm=1 a=8Pu+u8o12PWZCfupdeghHQ==:17 a=wom5GMh1gUkA:10 a=TJnKmCqjyHAA:10 a=as2ii8JTC2oA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=BswL-RFwAAAA:8 a=kM_2MJY8AAAA:8 a=svIbT7w5TVgA:10 a=bTV28HER_Yd_lZct8_gA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=kvx9ACX9JqAA:10 a=WOsSUt-DgwAA:10 a=8Pu+u8o12PWZCfupdeghHQ==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; auth=pass (CRAM-MD5) smtp.auth=aidenn01@cox.net Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I'm trying out a rather large subversion import, and am trying to figure out if there is a way to delete branches during a fast-import. Right now I can think of only 2 ways to handle this: 1) End the import, do a git branch -D and then resume the import. 2) Scan the entire repository history, identify deleted branches and handle them upfront so that they never have conflicting names. Is there a better way? -Jason