Re: gitk: Removing Stacked Git branches from the --all view

From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Aug 18, 2010, 16:07 UTC
Message-ID: <4C6C0543.7070203@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=4Jr6KknLyBUe_+bQ4zue2KGNjxJtY8Ja6LmAT@mail.gmail.com>

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From: Sverre Rabbelier
Date: 8/17/2010 11:42 AM

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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:02, Joshua Jensen<jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>  wrote:
>> I've been playing around with various 'git log' options, but I'm not finding
>> one that gives me the gitk --all view as if StGit were never attached to the
>> repository.  (Speaking of StGit and apps that store metadata in branches...
>> it would be awesome to have a filter that knocks those branches out of ALL
>> views of the data.)
> It would be easier if StGit DTRT and stored its metadata in a stgit/
> namespace. That way you could just do `gitk --branches=refs/heads/`.
> There's (afaik) no way to specify what refs not to show, you'd need to
> teach 'git rev-list' a way to ignore a ref space. You'd have to teach
> it how to interpret something like `git rev-list --all --not
> --branches=refs/heads/*.stgit`.

Sure, I agree StGit should the metadata in an stgit/ namespace.

In any case, it sounds like there is no way to pull this off right now.  :(

Thanks for the help!

Josh