I know that git isn’t mean to be any sort of UX poster child, but this is something that has gnawed at me a bit, and that’s the “how do you show all the things” commands/flags.

These are in order of the rough frequency that I use them.

Show All The What’s?

(The ... are meant to be a dramatic pause, not part of the command.)

branches => git branch, or git branch ... -a, or git branch ... -r

stashes => git stash ... list

remotes => git remote ... -v

tags => git tag #... nothing!

reflogs => git reflog ... --all

I’m sure there are good reasons for each one, but it does feel like each command was designed or written by a different person at different times.

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