Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> ... >> I think you are going in the right direction. I had a similar >> thought but built around a different axis. I.e. if strip=1 strips >> one from the left, perhaps we want to have rstrip=1 that strips one >> from the right, and also strip=-1 to mean strip everything except >> one from the left and so on? > ... > If we do implement strip with negative numbers, it definitely > would be neat, but to get the desired feature which I've mentioned > below, we'd need to call strip twice, i.e > to get remotes from /refs/foo/abc/xyz we'd need to do > strip=1,strip=-1, which could be > done but ... ... would be unnecessary if this is the only use case: > strbuf_addf(&fmt, > "%%(if:notequals=remotes)%%(refname:base)%%(then)%s%%(else)%s%%(end)", > local.buf, remote.buf); You can "strip to leave only 2 components" and compare the result with refs/remotes instead, no?