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. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html