On 2014.01.24 at 12:00 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > > >> > 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. > >> > >> 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? > > > > It is something that has been talked about before, but I do not think > > anybody is actively working on. It would probably not be too hard a > > feature if you are interested in getting your feet wet in git > > development. :) > > The end result might be not so hard in the mechanical sense, but > designing the interface would be hard. I do not offhand think of a > good way to do this. I don't know if the in-tree regex engine supports negative lookaheads. If it does, then something like the following should work (to use my "hjl" example): ^(.(?!hjl))* -- Markus -- 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