I love git

David Cantrell david at cantrell.org.uk
Sun Oct 28 12:06:15 GMT 2012


On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:32:08PM +0000, David Flynn wrote:
> * David Cantrell (david at cantrell.org.uk) wrote:
> >Now, my question - can I delete the branch, while still leaving the tag
> >in place?
> Yes, branches (as are tags) are just pointers to commits.  As long as
> a commit is reachable via some pointer, it won't be GC'd.

Lovely.

Now, having deleted the branch on one machine, and pushed the delete to
github, how do I make it disappear everywhere else that I've got a copy
of the repo?

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