Jon Nelson wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > >>>I suspect that the root cause was a 'git branch -D' I issued a while back. >>>My question is this: if deleting a branch in that manner caused me to enter >>>this situation, is that a bug or no? >> >>It's not a bug. You probably meant to do >> >> $ git branch -d >> >>-D forces removal even if there are objects reachable only through that >>branch. The man-page says so, but in git'ish, which isn't always intuitive >>until you've grown familiar with the glossary.txt doc. > > > I tried 'git branch -d' initially and it refused to delete the branch. > So I tried 'git branch -D'. > > Re-reading your last paragraph makes it clear what happened, then. > I'll note that I ran 'git branch -D' *days* ago and I've run git-prune > literally a couple dozen times since then. Is it possible the objects > weren't removed because they were still referenced by tags? > I suppose it must have been, which sort of contradicts how I thought tags worked. Lucky thing though, eh? :) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Dec 20 06:32:50 2005
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