Globbing for ignored branches?

I would like to ignore branches that match a certain pattern, e.g.:

markus@x4 gcc % git branch -a
  gcc-4.8
* master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/aldyh/cilk-in-gomp
...
  remotes/origin/hjl/arch
  remotes/origin/hjl/asan
...
  remotes/origin/hjl/x86/m16
  remotes/origin/ifunc
  remotes/origin/jason/4.6-cxx0x
  remotes/origin/jason/alias-decl
  remotes/origin/jason/comdat-debug
  remotes/origin/lw-ipo
  remotes/origin/master
...

Is it possible to ignore all branches that match "hjl"?

-- 
Markus

-----Original Message-----
Behalf Of Markus Trippelsdorf
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 1:01 AM
Subject: Globbing for ignored branches?

I would like to ignore branches that match a certain pattern, e.g.:

[snip]

Is it possible to ignore all branches that match "hjl"?

 

If you mean ignore them when you do "git branch -a", then

git branch -a |grep -v hjl

If you mean "ignore" in some other scenario you need to be more specific about what you want.

On 2014.01.24 at 16:37 +0000, Jim Garrison wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
Behalf Of Markus Trippelsdorf
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 1:01 AM
Subject: Globbing for ignored branches?

I would like to ignore branches that match a certain pattern, e.g.:

[snip]

quoted

Is it possible to ignore all branches that match "hjl"?

 

If you mean ignore them when you do "git branch -a", then

git branch -a |grep -v hjl

If you mean "ignore" in some other scenario you need to be more
specific about what you want.

I want to them when I run "git pull".

-- 
Markus

On 2014.01.24 at 18:07 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

On 2014.01.24 at 16:37 +0000, Jim Garrison wrote:

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-----Original Message-----
Behalf Of Markus Trippelsdorf
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 1:01 AM
Subject: Globbing for ignored branches?

I would like to ignore branches that match a certain pattern, e.g.:

[snip]

quoted

Is it possible to ignore all branches that match "hjl"?

 

If you mean ignore them when you do "git branch -a", then

git branch -a |grep -v hjl

If you mean "ignore" in some other scenario you need to be more
specific about what you want.

I want to them when I run "git pull".

           ignore
-- 
Markus

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:09:09PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

quoted

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If you mean "ignore" in some other scenario you need to be more
specific about what you want.

I want to them when I run "git pull".

           ignore

I assume you mean that you do not want to fetch them at all, not that
you want to avoid merging them. The set of branches that git fetches is
configured by the fetch "refspec" in your config file. It usually looks
like this:

  $ git config remote.origin.fetch
  +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

But you can specify a specific list of branches you want to fetch
instead:

  $ git config --unset remote.origin.fetch
  $ for i in master other-branch; do
      git config --add remote.origin.fetch \
                       +refs/heads/$i:refs/remotes/origin/$i
    done

However, you do have to specify each branch individually. You probably
want to say "all branches except X", and you cannot currently specify
a negative refspec like that.

-Peff

On 2014.01.24 at 13:23 -0500, Jeff King wrote:

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:09:09PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

quoted

quoted

quoted

If you mean "ignore" in some other scenario you need to be more
specific about what you want.

I want to them when I run "git pull".

           ignore

I assume you mean that you do not want to fetch them at all, not that
you want to avoid merging them. The set of branches that git fetches is
configured by the fetch "refspec" in your config file. It usually looks
like this:

  $ git config remote.origin.fetch
  +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

But you can specify a specific list of branches you want to fetch
instead:

  $ git config --unset remote.origin.fetch
  $ for i in master other-branch; do
      git config --add remote.origin.fetch \
                       +refs/heads/$i:refs/remotes/origin/$i
    done

However, you do have to specify each branch individually. You probably
want to say "all branches except X", and you cannot currently specify
a negative refspec like that.

Thanks.
Yes, that was the question I wanted to ask (, sorry for not formulating
it more clearly). 
Is this "negative refspec for branches" a feature that is planned for
the future?

-- 
Markus

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

quoted

However, you do have to specify each branch individually. You probably
want to say "all branches except X", and you cannot currently specify
a negative refspec like that.

Yes, that was the question I wanted to ask (, sorry for not formulating
it more clearly). 
Is this "negative refspec for branches" a feature that is planned for
the future?

It is something that has been talked about before, but I do not think
anybody is actively working on. It would probably not be too hard a
feature if you are interested in getting your feet wet in git
development. :)

-Peff