[PATCH] doc branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branches
From: Philip Oakley <hidden>
Date: 2019-05-28 12:13:25
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
The availability of these pattern selections is not obvious from the man pages, as per mail thread [ref]. Provide examples. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <redacted> --- in response to [ref] https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=%3CCACsJy8CwY8gzeWa9kNRX3ecez1JGiQiaOknbAoU7S%2BhiXBoUGQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E to: "Git Mailing List <redacted>" cc: "Duy Nguyen <redacted>" cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <redacted>" Documentation/git-branch.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 3bd83a7cbd..7ed91f1be3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt@@ -314,6 +314,18 @@ $ git branch -D test <2> <2> Delete the "test" branch even if the "master" branch (or whichever branch is currently checked out) does not have all commits from the test branch. +Listing branches from a specific remote:: ++ +------------ +$ git branch -a -l '<remote>/<pattern>' <1> +$ git for-each-ref 'refs/remotes/<remote>/<pattern>' <2> +------------ ++ +<1> This can conflate <remote> with any local branches you happen to + have been prefixed with the same <remote> pattern. +<2> `for-each-ref` can take a wide range of options. See linkgit:git-for-each-ref[1] + +Patterns will normally need quoting. NOTES -----
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