From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how can i "gc" or "prune" objects related to a deleted remote?
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 01:22:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190320052226.GA9650@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sxbdx51.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:35:54AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > My guess is you forgot the tag? There's not a general solution there,
> > because the tags all get intermingled. Git has no idea which ones came
> > from which remote. However, if you have the commit id of an object you
> > expect to be going away, you can use:
> >
> > git for-each-ref --contains=$that_commit
>
> Not a general solution, but if you know you have one remote left, and
> you don't have unpushed locally created tags, you can do a:
>
> git fetch origin --prune --prune-tags
Good call. I forgot that we even had --prune-tags.
-Peff
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-08 15:36 how can i "gc" or "prune" objects related to a deleted remote? Robert P. J. Day
2019-03-19 6:39 ` Jeff King
2019-03-19 9:35 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-03-20 5:22 ` Jeff King [this message]
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