I wish they made a breaking change in the next version and make the CLI actually usable.
Before you downvote, ask yourself how do you list tags, branches and remote
Before you downvote, ask yourself how do you list tags, branches and remote
As I understand it, they're attempting to make it "actually usable" by adding more consistent (and maybe even "intuitive") options to the syntax. In order to avoid a breaking change, though, they're also leaving the old confusing stuff in. Sure, it's regrettable that it's there in the first place, but understandable that they don't want to break people's scripts from, by now, decades back.
Sure, that makes it a little harder to learn, but it can be done, by just making a conscious decision to ignore those crufty old bits.
You point is what, that these are needlessly asymmetric? It's true. But they're in my head because I do them every day, and it's not like I'm suffering under the burden of remembering a handful of flags. That's a pretty far cry from "not actually usable", so maybe your hyperbole is a little misplaced?
Anyone with half a brain can understand that if they can't keep something as simple as printing a list consistent you better believe nothing else will be straightforward. Which is my point. NOTHING is straightforward and I haven't met a single person who likes the CLI if they do anything more complex than a commit, push and pull. I know people who still refuse to use rebase and don't understand bisect or blame. They use a GUI to restore files
> git branch --all
Tags are different, since they are actual objects in git, but using ls-remote isn’t tough, and one could create an alias.