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27 lines
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Currently `git annex unused` assumes that all branches (including remote
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tracking branches) and tags are "used" and finds only objects not used by
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any of those refs.
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That's a reasonable default, but in some cases, we don't care about
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specific refs. Perhaps we don't consider remote tracking branches
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important. Or perhaps we only want objects in HEAD to be considered used.
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This could be handled by adding an option to specify a refspec when running
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git-annex unused. Only matching refs would be checked. It's probably worth
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making this be both a command-line option --used-refspec, as well as a
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annex.used-refspec config setting.
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git's refspec format is not quite right (since it specifies a local side
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and a remote side for push/pull). But, it can be used as a point of
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departure. Let's allow wildcards as it does, and use leading '+' to add a
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ref, and '-' to remove. Let the user specify multiple such expressions,
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separated by ':'.
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+refs/heads/*:-refs/remotes/*:+refs/tags/*:-refs/tags/old-tag
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Note that this needs to be processed by taking all refs matching any '+',
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and then removing any of those that match any '-'
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Also, allow use of HEAD, and anything else that `git show-ref` can handle.
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--[[Joey]]
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