Hiding refs by pattern (to reduce git-branchless spam)?

[nyanpasu64]

Installing git-branchless has resulted in it labeling large numbers of commits with meaningless refs which clutter the tig view. Is it possible to hide certain refs from tig by a regex/glob pattern?

I looked at https://jonas.github.io/tig/doc/tigrc.5.html#_variables, and it seems the closest you can get is hide:, but you can't hide branches and unknown refs separately, nor can you hide refs/stash and refs/branchless separately if you want.

[krobelus]

You can set TIG_LS_REMOTE to a script that runs something like git show-ref --head --dereference | grep -v refs/branchless/

I wonder if there is a good way to avoid creating such opaque references in the first place.

[arxanas]

Does tig support the log.excludeDecoration config option, as mentioned here? arxanas/git-branchless#171 (comment)

[krobelus]

Not yet. I guess we'd need to reimplement Git's log.excludeDecoration filtering on the output of get_ref_list().

[koutcher]

We could also introduce a new reference category other to allow the use of set reference-format = hide:other to hide these references which aren't heads, tags, branches...