Purging git-bug data #1463

If I may ask a follow-up question: Is there a way to find and delete local identities like that, too?
I tried it by finding the ref via git show-refs and then deleting an identity with git update-ref -d ..., but it seems that git bug has its own cache? The identity is still shown with git bug user but can't be adopted anymore.

git-bug maintains its caches under .git/git-bug. running wipe should be deleting everything locally for you; if it isn't, please open an issue :)

there isn't currently a command to remove an individual identity; you'd need to manually find and remove the ref, and then delete your identity cache so git-bug can rebuild it on the next command invocation.

The identity is still shown with git bug user but can't be adopted anymore.

technically, if you removed the ref, the object it was pointing to will exist until you gc it, but there isn't a supported way to reconstruct that relationship (which would result in a new ref, anyway)... but this would be entering unknown territory, so, there be dragons.

however, the only reason git-bug is telling you that the user exists is because it's in the cache. removing a local reference like this without rebuilding the cache is what led to this behavior.

alright, so deleting the cache manually should trigger a cache rebuild on the next command? that's my solution then :)
and no, it wasn't a result of git bug wipe. i was playing around and accidentally created a duplicate identity, which i then tried to delete manually but got stuck.

thank for your patience!

alright, so deleting the cache manually should trigger a cache rebuild on the next command? that's my solution then :)

yep!

i was playing around and accidentally created a duplicate identity, which i then tried to delete manually but got stuck.

yeah, wanting to delete an identity has come up a few times (usually for this same reason), and supporting it is on my radar. you can follow #1393 for updates on that.