Re: Should `git remote show` display excluded branches as to-be-fetched?

>
> Pavel Rappo <pavel.rappo@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Here's a console session:
> >
> >   % git config --get-all remote.jdk19.fetch
> >   +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/jdk19/*
> >   ^refs/heads/pr/*
>
> Thanks
>
> "Negative refspecs" is relatively new feature introduced in c0192df6
> (refspec: add support for negative refspecs, 2020-09-30), so it
> would not be so surprising if it still had some surprising behaviour
> ;-)
>
> Jacob, care to take a look?
>
> >   % git remote show jdk19
> >
> >   * remote jdk19
> >     Fetch URL: git@github.com:openjdk/jdk19.git
> >     Push  URL: git@github.com:openjdk/jdk19.git
> >     HEAD branch: master
> >     Remote branches:
> >       master tracked
> >       pr/1   new (next fetch will store in remotes/jdk19)
> >       pr/2   new (next fetch will store in remotes/jdk19)
> >       pr/3   new (next fetch will store in remotes/jdk19)
> >     Local ref configured for 'git push':
> >       master pushes to master (fast-forwardable)
> >
> > I would naively expect the pr/1, pr/2, and pr/3 branches to be either:
> >
> > - not displayed, or better
> > - displayed with a hint that they won't be fetched (since they match a
> > _negative_ refspec, which is the second line in the `git config`
> > output above)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Pavel