Re: [RFC] branch: list branches by single remote

Michael Schubert venit, vidit, dixit 24.08.2011 17:14:

On 08/16/2011 05:14 PM, Jeff King wrote:

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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 03:37:33PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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This isn't right. You are assuming that a remote called "foo" will have
all of its branches in refs/remotes/foo. That's true under the default
configuration, but technically speaking, the remote tracking branches of
"foo" are defined by the right-hand side of foo's fetch refspecs.

You are 100% right here, but...

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So I think you want something more like this:

...the op still might want to filter simply by the remote name.

That is a perfectly reasonable approach. It just should be called
"--glob" or something, and not "remote".  git-tag allows patterns to an
explicit "tag -l", but "-l" is already taken for git-branch.

As suggested, I've just called it "--glob" for now.

Well, again, what's the point in replicating

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/172228

and how is it different?

As I've mentioned, I've been in the middle of polishing that up. You can
follow it if you like:

http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mjg.git/shortlog/refs/heads/branch-list-pattern

Also, again: git branch is much more like git tag than it is like git
log, so I think the pattern matching options should be, too.

Michael