Re: [PATCH] completion: --list option for git-branch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Feb 16, 2012, 18:07 UTC

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> writes:

> Normally one would use just a bare 'git branch' to list branches.
> Why would you want to use --list in an interactive environment (as
> opposed to a script)? Isn't it better not to clutter the completion
> options with something that the user actually has not need for?

        $ git branch jc/\*
        fatal: 'jc/*' is not a valid branch name.
        $ git branch --list jc/\*
          jc/advise-i18n
          jc/advise-push-default
          ...