Re: [PATCH 2/2] Teach 'git remote' how to cleanup stale tracking branches.

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:


> diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
> index 358c1ac..817651e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  'git-remote'
>  'git-remote' add <name> <url>
>  'git-remote' show <name>
> +'git-remote' prune <name>
>  
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> @@ -26,6 +27,10 @@ update remote-tracking branches <name>/<branch>.
>  
>  In the third form, gives some information about the remote <name>.
>  
> +In the fourth form, deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>.
> +These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository
> +referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in "remotes/<name>".
> +

Wouldn't it be better to refer to subcommand by name, instead of
the number of subcommand ("fourth form")? Compare git-rerere(1).

P.S. I wanted to refer to documentation of other commands with
subcommands, but git-bisect(1) is not good example; git-rerere(1)
I think is.
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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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