From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Alexey Muranov <alexey.muranov@gmail.com>,
Dan Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: fetch --prune by default
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:51:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120821065113.GB3238@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vzk5uxvzl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:22:54PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > In the meantime, would it make sense to introduce a configuration
> > variable to request this behavior?
> >
> > If so, should it be global?
> >
> > fetch.prune = always
> >
> > or per-remote?
> >
> > remote.<name>.prune = always
> >
> > The global option seems to be more in line with what Alexey is looking
> > for, but the per-remote one is similar to the tagopt option, which is
> > a similar idea.
> >
> > Of course, this might be just a waste of time to introduce a feature
> > no one would use, in which case we obviously should not introduce such
> > options.
>
> I was reading through the backlog today and noticed that this topic
> veered into the "reflog graveyard" tangent. I wasn't involved in
> the main topic, but I think having both configuration variables,
> remote.<remote>.prune taking precedence over fetch.prune, as long as
> we make sure "fetch --no-prune" will override any configured
> default, is not a bad thing per-se.
>
> As long as the users who elect to use this feature are aware of the
> pruning of the refs and logs, that is, but "branch [-r] -d" has been
> the way to lose both the branch and its log for a long time, so I do
> not see a big issue there, either.
>
> The log graveyard is an independently interesting idea, which I may
> ping separately, but I consider it pretty much orthogonal to this
> particular topic.
Yeah, I think that is sensible. As long as the _default_ is not to
prune, and people are making a conscious choice to prune, I don't see a
problem at all.
The log graveyard is orthogonal to the proposed option, but I think it
would be a necessary step before flipping the default for that option to
"true".
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-21 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 7:30 Feature request: fetch --prune by default Alexey Muranov
2012-07-19 11:55 ` Jeff King
2012-07-19 14:03 ` Dan Johnson
2012-07-19 15:11 ` Stefan Haller
2012-08-16 23:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-21 6:51 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-06-20 19:22 ` Sam Roberts
2012-07-19 16:21 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-19 17:34 ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2012-07-19 21:20 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-19 21:57 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-20 7:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-07-20 7:28 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-16 23:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-19 16:40 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-19 16:48 ` Dan Johnson
2012-07-19 16:51 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-19 21:32 ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] reflog graveyard Jeff King
2012-07-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] retain reflogs for deleted refs Jeff King
2012-07-19 22:23 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-20 14:26 ` Jeff King
2012-07-20 14:32 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-19 22:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-20 14:43 ` Jeff King
2012-07-20 15:07 ` Jeff King
2012-07-20 15:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-20 15:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-20 15:50 ` Jeff King
2012-08-16 23:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-20 9:49 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-07-20 15:44 ` Jeff King
2012-07-20 16:37 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-07-20 17:09 ` Jeff King
2012-07-22 11:03 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-26 12:47 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-07-26 16:26 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-26 16:41 ` Matthieu Moy
2012-07-26 16:59 ` Jeff King
2012-07-26 17:24 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-26 17:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-26 17:52 ` Jeff King
2012-07-22 11:10 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-22 11:12 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-22 13:14 ` Jeff King
2012-07-22 14:40 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-07-22 15:50 ` Jeff King
2012-07-20 16:32 ` Johannes Sixt
2012-08-18 17:14 ` [RFC 0/3] Reflogs for deleted refs: fix breakage and suggest namespace change mhagger
2012-08-18 17:14 ` [RFC 1/3] t9300: format test in modern style prior to modifying it mhagger
2012-08-18 17:14 ` [RFC 2/3] Delete reflogs for dead references to allow pruning mhagger
2012-08-21 8:33 ` Jeff King
2012-08-18 17:14 ` [RFC 3/3] Change naming convention for the reflog graveyard mhagger
2012-08-18 20:39 ` [RFC 0/3] Reflogs for deleted refs: fix breakage and suggest namespace change Junio C Hamano
2012-08-18 21:11 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-19 0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-19 7:07 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-19 7:15 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-19 11:28 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-19 17:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-19 22:09 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-20 0:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-20 1:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-20 11:32 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-20 11:57 ` Alexey Muranov
2012-08-19 13:19 ` Michael Haggerty
2012-08-19 16:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-21 8:27 ` Jeff King
2012-08-21 17:56 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] teach sha1_name to look in graveyard reflogs Jeff King
2012-07-19 22:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-20 15:53 ` Jeff King
2012-07-22 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-07-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] add tests for reflogs of deleted refs Jeff King
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