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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ignoring remote branches.
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 05:25:12 -0500
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Hi Steven,

Steven Michalske wrote:

> I want to track new branches, so specifying the branches I want
> to fetch is tedious.
>=20
> Any workarounds to ignore all branches that match *.stgit

I would suggest using =E2=80=98git ls-remote=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98git =
fetch=E2=80=99 to grab just the
branches you want.

  #!/bin/sh
  set -e

  : ${remote=3Dorigin}
  : ${options=3D--dry-run}
  script=3D'!/\.stgit$/ s'
  script=3D"${script}#.*\\trefs/heads/\\(.*\\)\$"
  script=3D"${script}#git fetch $options $remote "
  script=3D"${script} refs/heads/\\1:refs/remotes/$remote/\\1"
  script=3D"${script}#p"

  eval "$(git ls-remote "$remote" | sed -n "$script")"

I am not sure how to generalize this: a pre-fetch hook that can reject
some branch names?  a fetchregexp configuration item?

 [remote "origin"]
	url =3D git://git.example.com/repo.git/
	fetchregexp =3D "refs/heads/\([^.]*\):refs/remotes/origin/\1"

Maybe we can solve some similar problems at the same time.

Thanks,
Jonathan