git branches

[Richard Earnshaw (foss)]

On 12/05/2026 17:03, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> to limit the volume of stuff that needs fetching, I'm deliberately having
> 
> 	fetch = ^refs/heads/users/*
> 
> in my .git/config. However, recently an insn-4-byte-align branch has
> appeared at the top level, and a little earlier there also was a new
> upstream/users/nalcock/prev/road-to-ctfv4. Looking at "git branch -a" I'm
> also observing quite a few more such branches which apparently weren't
> touched in a long time.
> 
> Could we make it a goal to keep the top level of origin/ tidy, i.e. having
> only the "official" branches there, and have everything else under users/
> (and, if necessary, a limited set of other easy to cover sub-spaces)?
> 
> Thanks, Jan

GCC uses the adacore hooks to limit branches to specific namespaces.  Perhaps we should add something similar for binutils.