From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:44:58 GMT Subject: Re: Globbing for ignored branches? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140124203312.GF396@x4> Markus Trippelsdorf writes: > On 2014.01.24 at 12:00 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Jeff King 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))* refspec wildcards are *NOT* regular expressions.