On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is it possible to hide decorated refs in `git log` even if they are > reachable from the refs I'm actually interested in seeing the logs of? > > For example, if I do `git log --graph --decorate --oneline --branches > 'feature/*'`, I'd like to *only* see refnames that match the glob > pattern. However, you'll see tags and other branches that do not match > the glob if they are reachable from the result set. > > This is purely a visual thing, and shouldn't impact the search results > I'd think. > > This is especially useful in cases where I do --simplify-by-decoration > to get a better understanding of the topology of just a couple of > select branches. Without some sort of "decoration exclusion", I am > getting ton of results including tags, etc which obfuscates the > information I'm really interested in. I don't think there's a way to do this, but it could be added. The glob just matches the refs now, the decoration happens as an unrelated step which doesn't care about the glob.