Re: Globbing for ignored branches?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 06:09:09PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:

> > > If you mean "ignore" in some other scenario you need to be more
> > > specific about what you want.
> > 
> > I want to them when I run "git pull".
>            ignore

I assume you mean that you do not want to fetch them at all, not that
you want to avoid merging them. The set of branches that git fetches is
configured by the fetch "refspec" in your config file. It usually looks
like this:

  $ git config remote.origin.fetch
  +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

But you can specify a specific list of branches you want to fetch
instead:

  $ git config --unset remote.origin.fetch
  $ for i in master other-branch; do
      git config --add remote.origin.fetch \
                       +refs/heads/$i:refs/remotes/origin/$i
    done

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.

-Peff