How can I see which Git branches are tracking which remote upstream branch

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I know I can do git branch --all  and that shows me both local and remote branches  but it s not that useful in showing me the relationships between them   How do I list branches in a way that shows which local branch is tracking which remote

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I use this alias  git config --global alias track   f           -eq 2    amp  amp    echo  Setting tracking for branch    1   - gt     2 git branch --set-upstream  1  2         git for-each-ref --format  local    refname short   lt --sync-- gt  remote    upstream short   refs heads  amp  amp  echo --Remotes  amp  amp  git remote -v       f    then  git track

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git for-each-ref --format    refname short   lt -   upstream short   refs heads   will show a line for each local branch  A tracking branch will look like   master  lt - origin master   A non-tracking one will look like   test  lt -

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An alternative to kubi s answer is to have a look at the  git config file which shows the local repository configuration   cat  git config

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Very much a porcelain command  not good if you want this for scripting   git branch -vv     doubly verbose    Note that with git 1 8 3  that upstream branch is displayed in blue  see  What is this branch tracking  if anything  in git       If you want clean output  see arcresu s answer - it uses a porcelain command that I don t believe existed at the time I originally wrote this answer  so it s a bit more concise and works with branches configured for rebase  not just merge

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If you look at the man page for git-rev-parse  you ll see the following syntax is described       lt branchname gt   upstream   e g  master  upstream     u       The suffix   upstream  to a branchname  short form    lt branchname gt   u   refers to the branch that the branch specified by   branchname is set to build on top of  A missing branchname defaults   to the current one    Hence to find the upstream of the branch master  you would do     git rev-parse --abbrev-ref master  upstream      gt  origin master   To print out the information for each branch  you could do something like   while read branch  do   upstream   git rev-parse --abbrev-ref  branch  upstream  2 gt  dev null    if          0     then     echo  branch tracks  upstream   else     echo  branch has no upstream configured   fi done  lt   lt  git for-each-ref --format    refname short   refs heads       Output    master tracks origin master         This is cleaner than parsing refs and config manually

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For the current branch  you could also say git checkout  w o any branch   This is a no-op with a side-effects to show the tracking information  if exists  for the current branch     git checkout  Your branch is up-to-date with  origin master

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For the current branch  here are two good choices     git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name   u  origin mainline   or    git for-each-ref --format    upstream short     git symbolic-ref -q HEAD  origin mainline   That answer is also here  to a slightly different question which was  wrongly  marked as a duplicate

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Here is a neat and simple one  Can check git remote -v  which shows you all the origin and upstream of current branch

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Based on Olivier Refalo s answer  if      -eq 2    then     echo  Setting tracking for branch    1   - gt     2     git branch --set-upstream  1  2 else     echo  -- Local --       git for-each-ref --shell --format      upstream short           amp  amp  echo -e   t  refname short   lt -- gt    upstream short    refs heads   sh     echo  -- Remote --       REMOTES   git remote -v       if     REMOTES              then         echo  REMOTES     fi   fi   It shows only local with track configured   Write it on a script called git-track on your path an you will get a git track command  A more elaborated version on https   github com albfan git-showupstream

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In case anyone s reading this and wanting to protect master with client-side branch protection  git branch -vv   grep  quot     quot   grep -E     master  origin  master   will return 0 if either the local checked-out branch or its upstream remote branch is master  Just put this in your  git hooks directory s pre-commit and update files accordingly and Bob is your father s brother

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git config --get-regexp  branch   current branch  remote    will give you the name of the remote that is being tracked  git config --get-regexp  branch   current branch  merge    will give you the name of the remote branch that s being tracked    You ll need to replace  current branch with the name of your current branch  You can get that dynamically with git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD  The following mini-script combines those things  Stick it in a file named git-tracking  make it executable  and make sure it s in your path    then you can say     git  tracking  lt current branch name gt - gt  lt remote repo name gt   lt remote branch name gt    note that the remote branch name can be different from your local branch name  although it usually isn t   For example    git tracking  xxx xls xslx thing - gt  origin totally bogus   as you can see in the code the key to this is extracting the data from the git config  I just use sed to clear out the extraneous data      bin sh  current branch   git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD  remote   git config --get-regexp  branch   current branch  remote    sed -e  s          remote branch   git config --get-regexp  branch   current branch  merge        sed -e  s         -e  s refs            echo   current branch - gt   remote  remote branch

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git remote show origin  Replace  origin  with whatever the name of your remote is

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