Re: Command to list <pattern> Branches on a specific Remote (i.e. select from rtb's)

> On Sat, May 18 2019, Philip Oakley wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm unsure if there is a command for this.
>>
>> Currently I have 1600+ remote tracking branches (rtb) for my Git repo
>> as it covers both git.git and git-for-windows and some other
>> contributors.
>>
>> Finding a specific rtb for a particular remote looks like there ought
>> to be a simple command ready to do the job, but I haven't found
>> anything.
>>
>> Is there a command or simple simple invocation of branch, show-ref,
>> for-each-ref, etc that can be give a branch pattern and remote name to
>> quickly filter down the list of potential branches to just one or two
>> 24-line screens?
> That's:
>
>      git for-each-ref 'refs/remotes/<remote>/<pattern>'
>      git branch -a -l '<remote>/<pattern>'
>
> The latter will conflate <remote> with any local branches you happen to
> have prefixed with <remote>.
>
> The reason this isn't some easy mode in some command is because there's
> no hard notion that a given remote "owns" a given set of RTB's. It's
> just convention, but they can and do overlap sometimes.
>
> See the logic in 'git remote remove' that needs to decide if a deletion
> of a remote should delete its remote tracking refs: 7ad2458fad ("Make
> "git-remote rm" delete refs acccording to fetch specs", 2008-06-01)