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From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Subject: Re: Globbing for ignored branches?
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On 2014.01.24 at 13:23 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.
Yes, that was the question I wanted to ask (, sorry for not formulating
it more clearly). 
Is this "negative refspec for branches" a feature that is planned for
the future?

-- 
Markus