Subject: Re: fetch branch blacklist

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:23:08 -0800 (PST)

[email-masked] writes:

> If one wants to always fetch all except one remote branch, one cannot
> just blacklist it, but must instead whitelist all the rest.
> $ git branch -rd origin/man origin/html
> Deleted remote branch origin/man.
> Deleted remote branch origin/html.
> Plus I edited them out of FETCH_HEAD. Nonetheless, back from the dead:
> $ git pull
> From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
>  * [new branch]      html       -> origin/html
>  * [new branch]      man        -> origin/man
> The only solution is to change .git/config:
> [remote "origin"]
> 	url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
> #	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/maint:refs/remotes/origin/maint
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/next:refs/remotes/origin/next
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/pu:refs/remotes/origin/pu
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/todo:refs/remotes/origin/todo

Well, you can always use hooks for that (see for example
underdocumented contrib/hooks/update-paranoid)... or you can try to
scratch that itch yourself.  gitignore supports inverse (negated)
patterns (!<pattern>), so there is some code dealing with
"blacklisting".  I would propose using the same '!' character, or
perhaps one of forbidden characters (see git-check-ref-format(1)),
i.e.

 [remote "origin"]
 	url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        fetch = !refs/heads/html
        fetch = !refs/heads/man

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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