Subject: Re: how to hide some branches

From: Pete Harlan <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:09:33 -0800

Pascal Obry wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I create a new branch for every new feature/fix I work on. After some
> time I have many (too much) branch listed when doing:
> 
>    $ git branch
> 
> I'd like to hide some (not removing them).
> 
> Is there a solution for this?

>>From a suggestion by Jakub Narebski, I use an alias "lb" that shows
the most recently-active 8 branches:

  for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' \
       --sort=-authordate --count=8 refs/heads/

--Pete