Yes, this is true. By default, you'll get a lot of stale branches in your fetching repo.
For the time being, I've ignored this. I regularly clean it up. Say I have a mirror of a svn repo with trunk, tags/1.0 and a branch branches/1.0.x: Fetching repo: tfnico:~/git-repos/website-fetching/>git branch -a * master remotes/1.0-x remotes/tags/1.0 remotes/trunk Bare repo: tfnico:~/git-repos/website.git/>git branch 1.0-x tags/1.0 trunk Notice the 1.0-x branch. Now I remove the branch in SVN: svn rm file:///Users/tfnico/svn-repos/main/website/branches/1.0-x I run sync in the fetching repo: tfnico:~/git-repos/website-fetching/>git svn fetch;git push origin Everything up-to-date So, nothing changed there. The deletion of the branch was not propagated, and the 1.0-x branch still present. I now start cleaning up by removing it in the fetching repo: tfnico:~/git-repos/website-fetching/>rm .git/refs/remotes/1.0-x tfnico:~/git-repos/website-fetching/>git branch -a * master remotes/tags/1.0 remotes/trunk Now sync again: tfnico:~/git-repos/website-fetching/>git svn fetch;git push origin Everything up-to-date So, the branch is not recreated. Now clean up in the bare repo: tfnico:~/git-repos/website.git/>rm refs/heads/1.0-x tfnico:~/git-repos/website.git/>git branch rm tags/1.0 trunk Now, branch is gone is forever, unless we later on do a full git svn clone (which recreates all previous branches, also the removed ones). It's a bit messy, but think of it as manual maintenance you just have to do once in a while. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
