Re: [PATCH] tone down the detached head warning

[Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>]

Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 2007 February 01 00:14, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > Although the fact that clone copies all branches and tags (I don't think
> > there is a way to clone only subset of branches), and that fetch is multi
> 
> There is, as long as you are willing to organise your branches in a consistent 
> way.  I keep all my branches with the prefix "ap/" then on another 
> development machine I just have
> 
>  pull = refs/heads/ap/*:refs/heads/up/ap/*
> 
> In my config.  This means I can make local branches that won't be grabbed 
> during the fetch, but still have branches automatically exported.
> 
> This actually highlights a weakness in the globbing.  There is no way, for 
> example, to grab only unprefixed branches because the glob is blind to path 
> dividers (as is usual).  What would be even better would be a two glob 
> symbols, one meaning "do cross separators", one meaning "don't".  I think 
> rsync solves it for it's include/exclude patterns with a double asterisk.  
> That is:
> 
>  rsync -av --exclude "foo/*/bar" src/ dest/
> 
> Would exclude anything called "bar" two levels under "foo/"; wheras
> 
>  rsync -av --exclude "foo/**/bar" src/ dest/
> 
> Would exclude anything called "bar" anywhere deeper than two levels 
> under "foo".
> 
> I haven't thought of a good way of applying this in git though, and I have a 
> feeling that it could just complicate things excessively.
fnmatch with FNM_PATHNAME disables * to match on / but it does not
support the ** syntax afaik.