From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 15:51:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branches
Message-ID: <xmqqftoy60hq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <48b03739-b8f7-4d94-15dd-cf7936215a0e@iee.org>

Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:

> However, isn't `-r <pattern>` broken?

No.

> phili@Philip-Win10 MINGW64 /c/git-sdk-64/usr/src/git (branch-patterns)
> $ git branch -a -l 'junio/*'

You are asking "branch --all --list" here.

> $ git branch -a -r 'junio/*'
> fatal: -a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a
> branch name

You wanted to ask "branch --remote --list" instead of "branch --all
--remote", no?