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how to hide some branches

Subject: how to hide some branches

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5 messages between Nov 30, 2008 and Dec 1, 2008.

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Pascal Obry· Nov 30, 2008, 09:50 UTC · lore

Hello everyone,

I create a new branch for every new feature/fix I work on. After some time I have many (too much) branch listed when doing:

   $ git branch

I'd like to hide some (not removing them).

Is there a solution for this?

How you people handle this?

Thanks.

Pascal.

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Alex Riesen· Nov 30, 2008, 15:16 UTC · re: Pascal Obry · lore

Re: how to hide some branches

2008/11/30 Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>:

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> I create a new branch for every new feature/fix I work on. After some
> time I have many (too much) branch listed when doing:
>
>   $ git branch
>
> I'd like to hide some (not removing them).
>
> Is there a solution for this?
>
> How you people handle this?

Rename them into something _not_ under refs/heads:

  git update-ref refs/hidden/branch branch
  git branch -D branch

Pete Harlan· Nov 30, 2008, 20:09 UTC · re: Pascal Obry · lore

Re: how to hide some branches

Pascal Obry wrote:

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> Hello everyone,
> 
> I create a new branch for every new feature/fix I work on. After some
> time I have many (too much) branch listed when doing:
> 
>    $ git branch
> 
> I'd like to hide some (not removing them).
> 
> Is there a solution for this?

>From a suggestion by Jakub Narebski, I use an alias "lb" that shows

the most recently-active 8 branches:

  for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' \
       --sort=-authordate --count=8 refs/heads/

--Pete

Pascal Obry· Dec 1, 2008, 10:20 UTC · re: Pete Harlan · lore

Re: how to hide some branches

Pete Harlan a écrit :

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>>From a suggestion by Jakub Narebski, I use an alias "lb" that shows
> the most recently-active 8 branches:
> 
>   for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' \
>        --sort=-authordate --count=8 refs/heads/

Thanks, I like this one. Probably the best approach to me.

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Peter Krefting· Dec 1, 2008, 08:01 UTC · re: Pascal Obry · lore

Re: how to hide some branches

Pascal Obry:

> I'd like to hide some (not removing them).
> Is there a solution for this?

git branch --no-merged

shows only the branches that has not been merged into your current working branch. That might be one solution.

I don't know if it is possible to set it as a default option, but I would also appreciate such a feature.

I use the "git branch --merged" to move away merged branches into a different "namespace" (branch "a" becomes "merged/a"):

  for branch in $(git branch --merged master | egrep -v 'merged|master');
  do
    git branch -m "$branch" "merged/$branch"
  done

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