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Print all git branches without needing to quit or needing to remember yet another flag
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git-branch-and-cat.txt
By default, `git branch` by default uses a pager, which requires that you quit out of the pager, which erases the results fmor your screen
stefanl@stefanl:zfs git branch --all
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/master
remotes/origin/top
remotes/origin/zfs-0.6.3-stable
(END)^C
*WIPE*
stefanl@stefanl:zfs
Instead, just pipe it through `cat`:
stefanl@stefanl:zfs $ git branch --all |cat
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/master
remotes/origin/top
remotes/origin/zfs-0.6.3-stable
remotes/origin/zfs-0.6.4-release
remotes/origin/zfs-0.6.5-release
remotes/origin/zfs-0.7-release
remotes/origin/zfs-0.8-release
stefanl@stefanl:zfs $
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