any way to avoid bot branch clutter?

[Mike Beckerle <mb...@apache.org>]

Is there a basic technique I can put in my ~/.gitconfig so that my daffodil
repo clone won't show dependabot and scala steward branches?

Basically, I don't want to fetch info about commits that have "dependabot"
in their remote branch name. For any remote.

E.g., see screenshot here from qgit:

[image: image.png]


or this one:

[image: image.png]

Re: any way to avoid bot branch clutter?

[Steve Lawrence <sl...@apache.org>]

Yep, the remote.<name>.fetch config option is a "refspec" (essentially a 
glob of src and dst) that will tell git what remote branches to fetch 
when you run git fetch. Because the option is usually remote/repository 
specific, it's probaby best to modify it in .git/config in the repo 
instead of ~/.gitconfig.

The default that is probably already in your .git/config file looks 
something like this:

   [remote "asf"]
       fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/asf/*

In this case, the src of the fetch is all the remote branches 
(refs/heads/*) and the dst of the branches is refs/remots/asf/*. So all 
remote branches are fetched and a locally tracking branch is created 
named "asf/*".

You can also specify multiple fetch options to fetch multiple patterns. 
Additionally, they can also be prefixed with a carat (^) to negate the 
pattern. If a remote branch matches any negated refspec then it will not 
be downloaded. So to ignore dependabot branches, we can add a new 
negation fetch option to the config like this:

   [remote "asf"]
       fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/asf/*
       fetch = ^refs/heads/dependabot/*

Note that there is no dst in a negated refspec.

Now when you git fetch, git will not download any dependabot branches.

It doesn't look like git fetch --prune will delete your existing locally 
tracking dependabot branches, so you will need to manually delete them 
using git branch -r -d, for example:

   git branch -d -r 
asf/dependabot/docker/containers/release-candidate/fedora-minimal-36

The git-fetch man page has a section on "<refspec>" if you want to do 
anything more complex with your fetch options.


On 6/16/22 3:13 PM, Mike Beckerle wrote:
> 
> Is there a basic technique I can put in my ~/.gitconfig so that my daffodil repo
> clone won't show dependabot and scala steward branches?
> 
> Basically, I don't want to fetch info about commits that have "dependabot" in
> their remote branch name. For any remote.
> 
> E.g., see screenshot here from qgit:
> 
> image.png
> 
> 
> or this one:
> 
> image.png
> 
> 
> 
>