From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:14:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] branch: list branches by single remote
Message-ID: <20110816151448.GA5152@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E4A729D.9030906@drmicha.warpmail.net>

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

> > 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...
> 
> > 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.

> Reminds me that I have to resurrect my patterns-with-branches series....

Please do. I think it's a much simpler and more versatile solution to
the same problem.

-Peff