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Offline O01eg

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GIT: Branches description.
« on: October 10, 2010, 08:50:09 pm »
I want to free some space by deleting some unused branchers. Whan does mean these branches?
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  ai_lua
  buildbot
  hud
  maputils_java
  renderer_work
  rudolforadiant
  savegame_break
  tron/configure
  ufoai_2_legacy
  ufoai_firemode_patch
  ufoai_menu
  ufoai_sdl
  ufoai_wilminator
p.s. how to add "makefile" branch with "new build system" if I don't see it in "remotes/origin/"?
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Re: GIT: Branches description.
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2010, 10:36:17 am »
it was removed after it was merged back into master
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Re: GIT: Branches description.
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2010, 04:21:43 pm »
btw. you won't free much space by deleting branches - branches are just pointers to commits
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Re: GIT: Branches description.
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2010, 05:46:06 pm »
Does `git gc` and `git prune` not delete unused commits?
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Re: GIT: Branches description.
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2010, 07:13:36 pm »
that's the point - the commits are often still used when they were merged - just the branch pointer isn't there anymore.
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