"Balay, Satish" <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: > On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, Jed Brown via petsc-dev wrote: > >> "Smith, Barry F. via petsc-dev" <petsc-dev@mcs.anl.gov> writes: >> >> > This is, IMHO, a weakness of git. It is crazy to impose this type of >> > housekeeping directly on all 1000 users of a repository. >> >> Perhaps this should be the default: >> >> git config --global fetch.prune true > > or use 'git fetch -p' [ mentioned in my instructions]. I prefer > 'fetch' to 'pull' anyway [as it keeps my git prompt sane] - so this > works out well for me. > >> >> But, it would make it harder to recover if someone accidentally deletes >> a branch on the server. >> >> https://stackoverflow.com/a/40842589/33208 > > This updates the origin/* references to remote branches - but does not > delete locally checked out branches [if any] - they have to be > manually deleted [as mentioned in my instructions]
Yes, but those are branches that a person has directly interacted with. The many other branches would be quietly pruned.
