--all does not what the help says

[matthiasbeyer]

If you call tig --all it does: Display all branches: (from man tig). This is not what it does:

I have refs in .git/refs/foo/ which are also shown - technically, these are also branches, but not semantically. Semantically, only things in .git/refs/{remotes,heads,tags} are branches.

After all, I'm not entirely happy with the semantics here. I would like to propose the following changes:

• Keep the --all flag and its current behaviour, change the documentation accordingly
• Introduce --all-branches or something like that to only show (semantical) branches
• Introduce another flag to show all .git/refs/* but not the branches from the {heads,remotes,tags}.

What do you think?

[jonas]

I've updated the documentation using the wording from git-log(1). Hopefully this makes it more clear what tig --all does.

You can pass any git-log flag you want to Tig and it should select and filter as if you called git-log. If you only want branches something like this should work:

tig --branches

Given that git-log already has an extensive number of flags I'd prefer not to add any custom flags to Tig itself.

[matthiasbeyer]

Hm, this does not work for me, unfortunately. I mean, it also lists refs from refs/remotes/upstream, even when I pass --exclude=refs/remotes/upstream/*

[jonas]

I've pushed a fix for using --exclude=refs/remotes/upstream/* together with --all.