Re: avoiding fetching specific refs from a remote

From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2020, 22:12 UTC
Message-ID: <BE29FA64-5281-4D9E-B509-CA2C2B7BB87D@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200805063704.GA2690083@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

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> Le 5 août 2020 à 02:37, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> a écrit :
> 
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 02:53:30PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> 
>> something like adding a remote.<name>.excludeRefs which would allow
>> specifying a set of references to exclude from matching the refspec..
>> 
>> I realize I could customize the refspec to list the set of things I
>> want, but then I would miss any potential future branches until I
>> updated my remote config again.
> 
> This is definitely a reasonable thing to want, and it has come up off
> and on over the years. One search term for the list archive is "negative
> refspecs", though it turns up a lot of useless hits when the two words
> are not directly adjacent.

I tried searching "negative refspecs" (*with* the double quotes) and I get 20 results so it seems to work. Although interestingly it doesn't find this message you wrote I'm responding to because "negative" and "refspec" are on separate lines... I'm CC-ing Eric in case he knows more about this limitation.

Philippe.