Re: Automatically remote prune

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

 (1) The user wants to keep the remotes/<origin>/* namespace clean (iow,

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 (2) The user does want to be careful not to lose commits that now only

This whole discussion is a conflict between those two.  The current
system does the latter, safer, thing.  John's users are getting
confused because they *think* this means the remote still has those
refs.

At best an alias that does a prune before (or after) a fetch should do.

And I notice 'git gui' has an option to "prune during fetch" -- maybe
that should be an option that is also made available to the CLI fetch.