Re: Query for certain branches, but not the rest

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 10:24:59AM +0100, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> Suppose I have these branches:
> 
>   fc/feature-a
>   fc/feature-b
>   master
>   next
> 
> I want to show this: fc/feature-a fc/feature-b ^master ^next. I can do
> 'git log --branches=fc' to show the branches that begin with fc/, but
> there's no way to specify the rest. If they were under a prefix, I
> could do '--not --branches=prefix', but they are not.
> 
> Anybody knows a way to query branches that don't have any prefix?

I don't think there is a way. `--branches` can take a pattern (and there
is always `--glob`), but we do not pass FNM_PATHNAME to fnmatch, so "*"
will match across `/` boundaries.

You are stuck with:

  git log --branches=fc --not $(
    git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads |
    grep -v /
  )

which is at least robust due to the restrictions on refnames (i.e., no
whitespace).

As an aside, I noticed that:

  git log --branches=does-not-exist

will see that we matched no refs and fall back to showing HEAD. That
seems a bit surprising to me.

-Peff