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From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Automatically remote prune
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:45:41 +0530
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On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrot=
e:

> =C2=A0(1) The user wants to keep the remotes/<origin>/* namespace cle=
an (iow,

[snip]

> =C2=A0(2) The user does want to be careful not to lose commits that n=
ow only

This whole discussion is a conflict between those two.  The current
system does the latter, safer, thing.  John's users are getting
confused because they *think* this means the remote still has those
refs.

At best an alias that does a prune before (or after) a fetch should do.

And I notice 'git gui' has an option to "prune during fetch" -- maybe
that should be an option that is also made available to the CLI fetch.