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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Julian Phillips
<julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:54:09 +0000, "Robin H. Johnson"
> <robbat2@gentoo.org>

>> git clone --mirror && git fetch:

>> Caveats:
>> - Branches and tags deleted in master persist in slaves :-(

> I don't think that fetch can do it, but "git remote prune origin" will.

as of 1.7 at least, fetch has --prune, and I tested it yesterday when
someone (same person?) asked this on #git