From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:07:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] completion: --list option for git-branch
Message-ID: <7vpqdezm6u.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F3CCC4A.5010100@in.waw.pl>

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
          ...