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Shawn O. Pearce aa252f194b git-gui: Allow users to delete remote branches Git has supported remote branch deletion for quite some time, but I've just never gotten around to supporting it in git-gui. Some workflows have users push short-term branches to some remote Git repository, then delete them a few days/weeks later when that topic has been fully merged into the main trunk. Typically in that style of workflow the user will want to remove the branches they created. We now offer a "Delete..." option in the Push menu, right below the generic "Push..." option. When the user opens our generic delete dialog they can select a preconfigured remote, or enter a random URL. We run `git ls-remote $url` to obtain the list of branches and tags known there, and offer this list in a listbox for the user to select one or more from. Like our local branch delete dialog we offer the user a way to filter their selected branch list down to only those branches that have been merged into another branch. This is a very common operation as the user will likely want to select a range of topic branches, but only delete them if they have been merged into some sort of common trunk. Unfortunately our remote merge base detection is not nearly as strict as the local branch version. We only offer remote heads as the test commit (not any local ones) and we require that all necessary commits to successfully run git-merge-base are available locally. If one or more is missing we suggest that the user run a fetch first. Since the Git remote protocol doesn't let us specify what the tested commit was when we evaluated our decision to execute the remote delete there is a race condition here. The user could do a merge test against the trunk, determine a topic branch was fully merged, but before they can start pushing the delete request another user could fast-forward the remote topic branch to a new commit that is not merged into the trunk. The delete will arrive after, and remove the topic, even though it was not fully merged. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>		18 years ago
lib	git-gui: Allow users to delete remote branches	18 years ago
.gitignore	git-gui: Refactor into multiple files to save my sanity	18 years ago
GIT-VERSION-GEN	git gui 0.8.0	18 years ago
Makefile	git-gui: Guess our share/git-gui/lib path at runtime if possible	18 years ago
git-gui.sh	git-gui: Allow users to delete remote branches	18 years ago