Re: Globbing for ignored branches?

On 2014.01.24 at 12:00 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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

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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. :)

The end result might be not so hard in the mechanical sense, but
designing the interface would be hard.  I do not offhand think of a
good way to do this.

I don't know if the in-tree regex engine supports negative lookaheads.
If it does, then something like the following should work (to use my
"hjl" example):

^(.(?!hjl))*

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Markus