Re: Globbing for ignored branches?

From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Date: Jan 24, 2014, 20:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20140124203312.GF396@x4>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4n4trvzj.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

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

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> >
> >> > 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))*

-- 
Markus