how to hide some branches

Hello everyone,

I create a new branch for every new feature/fix I work on. After some time I have many (too much) branch listed when doing:

   $ git branch

I'd like to hide some (not removing them).

Is there a solution for this?

How you people handle this?

Thanks.

Pascal.

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the most recently-active 8 branches:

  for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' \
       --sort=-authordate --count=8 refs/heads/

--Pete

Thanks, I like this one. Probably the best approach to me.

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2008/11/30 Pascal Obry <[email protected]>:

Rename them into something _not_ under refs/heads:

git update-ref refs/hidden/branch branch
git branch -D branch

?

Pascal Obry:

git branch --no-merged

shows only the branches that has not been merged into your current working branch. That might be one solution.

I don't know if it is possible to set it as a default option, but I would also appreciate such a feature.

I use the "git branch --merged" to move away merged branches into a different "namespace" (branch "a" becomes "merged/a"):

  for branch in $(git branch --merged master | egrep -v 'merged|master');
  do
    git branch -m "$branch" "merged/$branch"
  done

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