On 28/05/2019 14:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Philip Oakley [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

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>
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Please try again, perhaps after reading
[ref]

Hi Junio
Sorry, I'm not understanding the comment, even having re-read the thread.
Philip

Thanks.

quoted

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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