ability to specify branches

[sjmarshy]

It'd be great if you could specify a branch to use for searching in the config. It'd be even better if you could do it on the fly in the UI

[comptonqc]

What would be better still is the ability to search in all branches (perhaps configurable on a per-repo basis if a given repo has many branches).

[akullpp]

+1

[Muffo]

That would be very useful!

[teemus]

+1 - Would be super useful 👍

[mavant]

Being able to search in multiple branches would be fantastic - this is the primary feature missing from Hound that prevents me from switching over from OpenGrok.

[oroger]

Being able to able to specify a specific branch to index would be greate, multiple would be awesome ! +1

[renweizhukov]

+1

[7anshuai]

+1
Failed to git fetch redis, output fatal: Couldn't find remote ref master

[dmsimard]

+1

[dmsimard]

There is also this PR with a different approach: #224

[dmsimard]

#275 provides the ability to specify a git branch other than the hardcoded "master" and it works for us.

[genuinelucifer]

#275 only adds the ability to specify one branch. Which still leaves room for improvement. I would like to be able to search on multiple branches in any repo. I tried changing the repo name for different branches using #275 but it doesn't work.
I am trying to port the patch https://github.com/caglar10ur/Hound/commit/a9208072a0444cd562592ca1bf348bf816ba4c2a to latest hound code to allow this functionality. But, I have no experience in go and it is proving to be a difficult task.
I think many people would like this functionality. Please use that patch as a starting position.

I have been able to index multiple branches but cannot search through them yet. Once my patch is complete I'll post it as a gist. (I have no experience in hg/bzr to send a MR with changes for those)

[genuinelucifer]

I have successfully adapted and tested a patch for specifying multiple branches in all the repos. I have also added an option to specify if user wants to search all branches or only master branch. Anyone interested can find the patch here:
https://gist.github.com/genuinelucifer/77346b81f79d2fdf3853fec16ef32fc0

[ianfixes]

What's the current state of this? I see the following:

• Add ability to use custom branch from vcs config for git #275 is still open
• Git VCS driver: Support non-default target refs #345 was merged, and seems to cover the same thing
• Lines in the example config that look like they could mean "autodetect default branch for all git repos"

  hound/config-example.json

  Lines 6 to 9 in fcb4ffd

  	"vcs-config" : {
  	"git": {
  	"detect-ref" : true
  	}

• Lines in the example config that look like they could mean "set the branch for this repo" (although unclear if it's for only BitBucket repos)

  hound/config-example.json

  Lines 64 to 66 in fcb4ffd

  	"vcs-config" : {
  	"ref" : "main"
  	}

Am I missing a file with specific documentation on the config?