Re: [PATCH] tone down the detached head warning

On Thursday 2007 February 01 00:14, Jakub Narebski wrote:

There is, as long as you are willing to organise your branches in a consistent way. I keep all my branches with the prefix "ap/" then on another development machine I just have

 pull = refs/heads/ap/*:refs/heads/up/ap/*

In my config. This means I can make local branches that won't be grabbed during the fetch, but still have branches automatically exported.

This actually highlights a weakness in the globbing. There is no way, for example, to grab only unprefixed branches because the glob is blind to path dividers (as is usual). What would be even better would be a two glob symbols, one meaning "do cross separators", one meaning "don't". I think rsync solves it for it's include/exclude patterns with a double asterisk. That is:

 rsync -av --exclude "foo/*/bar" src/ dest/

Would exclude anything called "bar" two levels under "foo/"; wheras

 rsync -av --exclude "foo/**/bar" src/ dest/

Would exclude anything called "bar" anywhere deeper than two levels under "foo".

I haven't thought of a good way of applying this in git though, and I have a feeling that it could just complicate things excessively.

Andy