On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 11:15 AM Rene Kita <mail@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 06:49:12PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote: > > Am 04.09.24 um 11:06 schrieb Rene Kita: > > > I have an alias > > > 'gr = log --oneline --abbrev-commit --all --graph --decorate --color' > > > and I would like to be able to sometimes exclude a branch, so call it > > > with: > > > $ git gr --exclude=pattern > > > > > > This does not work, though. Also does not work without the alias and > > > typing the complete command by hand. Apparently the --exclude must be > > > put before the --all to take effect. > > > > That is very much by design, so that you can express "branches except > > the wip and preview branches and remotes except those from the remote > > archive" with > > > > --exclude=wip/* --exclude=preview* --branches --exclude=archive/* --remotes > > > > These collective branch options --branches, --remotes, and --all clear > > the exclude patterns after having them applied. Therefore, in this example, > > the first two --exclude do not affect --remotes. > > OK, certainly not the answer I hoped for, but something I still > expected. Thanks for the explanation. > You could implement this as a shell alias so that your options get included before the --all. I'm not sure how trivial that would be to do, but thats how I would go about implementing this alias.
