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Re: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah.
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David Caldwell |
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Re: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah. |
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Mon, 23 Nov 2015 03:01:02 -0800 |
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On 11/23/15 2:51 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> By the way, what happens to abandoned branches? Does anybody do a
> periodic scan of branches to get rid of them? They surely don't go away
> of their own accord. If they aren't garbage collected, then the
> repository's list of branches will steadily fill up with useless cruft.
I'm not sure about Savannah, but generally with git you can delete
remote branches with this syntax:
git push origin :branch_to_be_deleted
If that is allowed, then deleting that branch and then pushing it back
with your amended change would effectively be the same as `git push -f`.
-David
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