Ah, OK, that at least makes some sense. I stand behind my previous statements about git ease of use, though.....
I've cleaned up all the old tracking branches for efs-core and efs-deploy, so anyone with copies of those repos should prune them. On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Kevin Green <[email protected]> wrote: > :) > > It actually somewhat is if you're accustomed to using the full syntax of the > push command: > > git push remote <local_branch>:<remote_branch> > > So, this: > > git push remote :<remote_branch> > > would be the equivalent of: > > cp /dev/null /to/my/file > > > Also, for completeness, if I were to remove branches from the shared > server and you had copies of them, you'll also need to do: > > git remote prune remote > > > to clean up your references from your own repository. > > > --Kevin > > On 03/02/12 09:50:32, Phillip Moore wrote: >> <sigh> OK, I found it.... >> >> git push remote :branch-name >> >> will delete the remote branch. Sooooo intuitive.... >> >> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Phillip Moore <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Perhaps one of you knows how to do this.... >> > >> > We have accumulated a lot of stale tracking branches and I wanted to >> > clean them up, but they simply will not go away. Finding an >> > explanation for how do this hasn't yielded any helpful results, but >> > posts by other people who also have no clue what they are doing, >> > guessing which commands to run, and making a bigger mess of things. >> > >> > Here's what I see: >> > >> > pmoore@Renegade$ git remote show origin >> > * remote origin >> > Fetch URL: [email protected]:efs-core.git >> > Push URL: [email protected]:efs-core.git >> > HEAD branch (remote HEAD is ambiguous, may be one of the following): >> > backup-database >> > master >> > Remote branches: >> > aix-support tracked >> > backup-database tracked >> > curl2lwp tracked >> > gssapi-optional tracked >> > kill_class_std tracked >> > master tracked >> > moose tracked >> > nfs-noac tracked >> > openafs tracked >> > package-fix tracked >> > standalone tracked >> > tt159_critic_fixins tracked >> > tt68_try_tiny tracked >> > upload-download-aliases tracked >> > Local branches configured for 'git pull': >> > master merges with remote master >> > package-fix merges with remote package-fix >> > standalone merges with remote standalone >> > Local refs configured for 'git push': >> > master pushes to master (up to date) >> > openafs pushes to openafs (up to date) >> > package-fix pushes to package-fix (up to date) >> > standalone pushes to standalone (up to date) >> > >> > (NOTE: The ambiguous HEAD concerns me to, but one thing at a time). >> > >> > According to the git-branch man page, this removes a remote branch: >> > >> > pmoore@Renegade$ git branch -d -r origin/aix-support >> > Deleted remote branch origin/aix-support (was 7f5218f). >> > >> > But this seems to just delete a *local* reference to the remote branch. >> > Note: >> > >> > pmoore@Renegade$ git remote show origin | grep aix >> > aix-support new (next fetch will store in remotes/origin) >> > >> > And then: >> > >> > pmoore@Renegade$ git pull >> > From git.openefs.org:efs-core >> > * [new branch] aix-support -> origin/aix-support >> > Already up-to-date. >> > >> > It comes back!!! Now, if you recall the incredibly non-intuitive way >> > that we created these branches, maybe that provides a clue. >> > >> > pmoore@Renegade$ git push origin origin:refs/heads/new-branch >> > Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) >> > remote: No commit email for refname refs/heads/new-branch >> > remote: No html exported for refname refs/heads/new-branch >> > remote: No archives exported or repo efs-core >> > To [email protected]:efs-core.git >> > * [new branch] origin/HEAD -> new-branch >> > pmoore@Renegade$ git branch --track new-branch origin/new-branch >> > Branch new-branch set up to track remote branch new-branch from origin. >> > >> > That "git push origin" syntax is maximally confusing. It seems that >> > all the git branch commands work against LOCAL configuration >> > information, and they don't really change the remote repository. So, >> > it's clear how to delete the LOCAL references to a remote tracking >> > branch, but how the hell do you delete the actual tracking branch in >> > the remote repository? >> > >> > I must have looked at 20+ git help related pages, and can find nothing >> > about how to do this. I'll keep looking, but if anyone has a clue how >> > to do this, or finds the answer, please share it. >> _______________________________________________ >> EFS-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.openefs.org/mailman/listinfo/efs-dev > _______________________________________________ > EFS-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.openefs.org/mailman/listinfo/efs-dev _______________________________________________ EFS-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openefs.org/mailman/listinfo/efs-dev
