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| author | Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-02-02 00:06:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-01 22:06:36 -0800 |
| commit | 859607dfe04260d55f5901974fdd660aebc427fa (patch) | |
| tree | a02c07639cf2fd55115f403d1354d31ac839922f /Documentation/git-remote.txt | |
| parent | 7a8c9ec1a95a368c5f32d430058d67109feccfee (diff) | |
| download | git-859607dfe04260d55f5901974fdd660aebc427fa.tar.gz | |
Teach 'git remote' how to cleanup stale tracking branches.
Since it can be annoying to manually cleanup 40 tracking branches
which were removed by the remote system, 'git remote prune <n>'
can now be used to delete any tracking branches under <n> which
are no longer available on the remote system.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-remote.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-remote.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt index 358c1acfc3..817651eaa4 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>". + The remote configuration is achieved using the `remote.origin.url` and `remote.origin.fetch` configuration variables. (See gitlink:git-config[1]). |