Re: stgit: cleaning up after using git branch delete commands

["Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>]

On 08/11/2007, Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com> wrote:
> On 2007-11-07 11:11:42 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> > how about a 'stg gc' command that gets rid of all the inaccessible
> > clutter?
>
> "stg assimilate" already has the job of fixing up stuff after the user
> has used git commands to move HEAD around. I think it would make sense
> to teach it to do this too -- and then rename it "stg repair" or
> something. That way, there's one command to fix every kind of "damage"
> that git can do to stgit.

"repair" sounds better than "gc" (which might also be confused with
the "git gc" command).

> Alternatively, "stg branch --create" and "stg init" and whoever else
> is bothered by the clutter could simply remove it themselves. That
> would be even more user-friendly, I guess.

I did some fixes for branch --delete but, since I use StGIT almost
exclusively, haven't thought that we need to relax the branch creation
as well.

-- 
Catalin