git-fetch

When I do git fetch origin and origin has a deleted branch, it doesn't seem to update it in my repository. When I do git branch -r it still shows origin/DELETED_BRANCH . How can I fix this? You need to do the following git fetch -p This will update the local database of remote branches. From http://www.gitguys.com/topics/adding-and-removing-remote-branches/ After someone deletes a branch from a remote repository, git will not automatically delete the local repository branches when a user does a git pull or git fetch. However, if the user would like to have all tracking branches removed from

I have created a sandbox git repository containing a few commits and a couple of tags, one lightweight and one annotated: > mkdir one; cd one; git init > touch a.txt; git add a.txt; git commit -m"a.txt" > touch b.txt; git add b.txt; git commit -m"b.txt" > git tag light > touch c.txt; git add c.txt; git commit -m"c.txt" > git tag -a annot -m"annot" I now create a second repository and fetch from the first: > mkdir two; cd two; git init > git remote add one <...>/one > git fetch one master remote: Counting objects: 9, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done. remote: Total 9 (delta 2)

I'm fetching for remote branches and stuck in some sort of a loop. I fetch once and get: $ git fetch * [new branch] minorRelease/something-> origin/minorRelease/something And then I fetch again and get: $ git fetch * [new branch] minorRelease/Something-> origin/minorRelease/Something Same branch but with a capital S . I tried to delete the file from the following folder .git/refs/remotes/origin/minorRelease , but when fetching again, I get both and return to the loop above: $ git fetch * [new branch] minorRelease/Something-> origin/minorRelease/Something * [new branch] minorRelease/something->

Here's the contents of the remote and branch sections of my .git/config file. [remote "origin"] url = https://EvanAad@bitbucket.org/EvanAad/bitbucketstationlocations.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master What is the meaning and purpose of the contents of these sections, in particular the fetch and merge subsections? How is this information used by Git to guide its operation? CodeWizard Its called refspec. Its the mechmism that git is using to "talk" to the remote server and to map local branches to remote branches. Refspecs

I have a git repo that I want to do a pull from. I do a normal git pull with no problems. The issue is that I want just one certain directory out of the repo. My thinking was that I could use a .gitignore file with a rule like this: #Ignore all files / #Except the one I want !/temp The problem is this doesn't work. Is that the right way to do it or is there a better way? git pull fetches and merges the remote branch. .gitignore works only locally, and will hide matching entries from showing up on git status and being added to the index with git add . It's not what you want. What you want to do

At one point I thought that git fetch origin --prune deleted local branches that were no longer present on the server. Somehow this is not my experience at the moment. I ran this command, and the local branch was not deleted. It is not currently checked out. I ran git branch -vv to check this info, and I see feature/MyGreatFeature f30efc7 [origin/feature/MyGreatFeature: gone] So it seems to know that it is gone. Why would it not delete my local branch? Running git version 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66) The various prune options ( git remote update --prune , git remote prune , git fetch --prune ) only

I set up a remote repository and I can push new changes to it, but I cannot fetch from it, I always get the (rather cryptic) error message: fatal: Refusing to fetch into current branch refs/heads/master of non-bare repository fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly What does it mean? What should I do to enable fetching? (Note that this remote repo is only used as a backup repo, so it should be pretty much an exact copy of my local repository. I really can't understand why I can push to it but not fetch from it...) My config looks like: [remote "origin"] url = ssh://blablablah fetch = +refs/