Ignoring specific remotes when running `magit-log-popup` to log all branches

Question

I would like to add an option in magit-log-popup to ignore a list of remotes when using "Log all branches" (l b). What I'm trying to do is something like this git log HEAD --branches --remotes --not --remotes=remote1 --remotes=remote2. All my attempts to add this have failed and I wondered if anybody have a suggestion on how it could be done?

Tried variations of things like this (magit-define-popup-option 'magit-log-popup ?i "Ignore remotes" "--not --remotes=" #'read-from-minibuffer). Though I might expanded it later with a function, but it caused the log come up empty.

Answer 1

Tried variations of things like this (magit-define-popup-option 'magit-log-popup ?i "Ignore remotes" "--not --remotes=" #'read-from-minibuffer). Though I might expanded it later with a function, but it caused the log come up empty.

This does not work because when you define "--not --remotes=" as a single argument, then it is—unsurprisingly—passed to Git as a single argument --not --remotes=VALUE. Git then errors out because it has no such argument.

You should be able to achieve what you want by adding two separate arguments --not and --remote= to the popup. You will have to make sure that they appear in the correct order in the popup and you will have to enable both separately.