How to use git's negative refspecs?

Asked Nov 24 '22 at 20:29

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I have a couple of remote branches (hotfixes) that I need to not fetch locally. I read about git negative refs but it seems like they are not working. They're supposed to work starting with git version 2.29. My current git version is 2.38.

This is my remote "origin" section in .git/config file:

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
fetch = ^refs/remotes/origin/hotfix/2.14.439
fetch = ^refs/remotes/origin/hotfix/2.15.323

However, those two remote hotfix branches keep showing up locally on every pull. I do delete them before issuing a pull command. I tried git pull -v and I have no errors/warnings whatsoever, just clean output.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

asked Nov 24 '22 at 20:29

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Is there a reason not to fetch them? They should be extremely small. – Schwern Nov 24 '22 at 20:43
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgit%5D+negative+refspec – phd Nov 24 '22 at 20:45
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`fetch = ^refs/heads/hotfix/2.14.439` – phd Nov 24 '22 at 20:45

How to use git's negative refspecs?

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