From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 13:57:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Command to list <pattern> Branches on a specific Remote (i.e. select from rtb's)
Message-ID: <xmqqa7f6el6b.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <87lfz3vcbt.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> 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>.

Wouldn't "branch -r -l <remote>/<pattern>" be without that downside?
Why use "-a"?