How do I list all remote branches in Git 1 7

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I ve tried git branch -r  but that only lists remote branches that I ve tracked locally  How do I find the list of those that I haven t   It doesn t matter to me whether the command lists all remote branches or only those that are untracked

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TL TR   This is the solution of your problem   git remote update --prune      To update all remotes git branch -r                  To display remote branches   or   git remote update --prune      To update all remotes git branch  lt TAB gt                To display all branches

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Using git branch -r lists all remote branches and git branch -a lists all branches on local and remote   These lists get outdated though   To keep these lists up-to-date  run  git remote update --prune   which will update your local branch list with all new ones from the remote and remove any that are no longer there   Running this update command without the --prune will retrieve new branches but not delete ones no longer on the remote   You can speed up this update by specifying a remote  otherwise it will pull updates from all remotes you have added  like so  git remote update --prune origin

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Just run a git fetch command  It will pull all the remote branches to your local repository  and then do a git branch -a to list all the branches

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The simplest way I found   git branch -a

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The best command to run is git remote show  remote   This will show all branches  remote and local  tracked and untracked   Here s an example from an open source project    gt  git remote show origin   remote origin   Fetch URL  https   github com OneBusAway onebusaway-android   Push  URL  https   github com OneBusAway onebusaway-android   HEAD branch  master   Remote branches      amazon-rc2                   new  next fetch will store in remotes origin      amazon-rc3                   new  next fetch will store in remotes origin      arrivalStyleBDefault         new  next fetch will store in remotes origin      develop                      tracked     master                       tracked     refs remotes origin branding stale  use  git remote prune  to remove    Local branches configured for  git pull       develop merges with remote develop     master  merges with remote master   Local refs configured for  git push       develop pushes to develop  local out of date      master  pushes to master   up to date    If we just want to get the remote branches  we can use grep  The command we d want to use would be   grep   w  s  new tracked   -E   With this command    gt  git remote show origin   grep   w  s  new tracked   -E     amazon-rc2                   new  next fetch will store in remotes origin      amazon-rc3                   new  next fetch will store in remotes origin      arrivalStyleBDefault         new  next fetch will store in remotes origin      develop                      tracked     master                       tracked   You can also create an alias for this   git config --global alias branches   git remote show origin   grep  w  s  new tracked  -E    Then you can just run git branches

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The accepted answer works for me  But I found it more useful to have the commits sorted starting with the most recent   git branch -r --sort -committerdate     https   git-scm com docs git-branch

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I ended up doing a mess shell pipeline to get what I wanted  I just merged branches from the origin remote   git branch -r --all --merged         tail -n  2         grep -P     remotes origin    HEAD           perl -p -e  s    remotes  origin    g s master n  g

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For the vast majority 1  of visitors here  the correct and simplest answer to the question  How do I list all remote branches in Git 1 7    is   git branch -r   For a small minority 1  git branch -r does not work  If git branch -r does not work try   git ls-remote --heads  lt remote-name gt    If git branch -r does not work  then maybe as Cascabel says  you ve modified the default refspec  so that git fetch and git remote update don t fetch all the remote s branches       1  As of the writing of this footnote 2018-Feb  I looked at the comments and see that the git branch -r works for the vast majority  about 90  or 125 out of 140     If git branch -r does not work  check git config --get remote origin fetch contains a wildcard     as per this answer

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Try this     git fetch origin git branch -a

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I would use   git branch -av   This command not only shows you the list of all branches  including remote branches starting with  remote  but it also provides you the   feedback on what you updated and the last commit comments

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But   git branch -ar  should do it

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Using this command   git log -r --oneline --no-merges --simplify-by-decoration --pretty format   n  Cred CommitID  Creset   h  n  Cred Remote Branch  Creset   d  n  Cred Commit Message  Creset   s  n   CommitID         27385d919 Remote Branch     origin ALPHA  Commit Message    New branch created   It lists all remote branches including commit messages and commit IDs that are referred to by remote branches

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remote show shows all the branches on the remote  including those that are not tracked locally and even those that have not yet been fetched   git remote show  lt remote-name gt    It also tries to show the status of the branches relative to your local repository    gt  git remote show origin   remote origin   Fetch URL  C  git   remote repo git   Push  URL  C  git   remote repo git   HEAD branch  master   Remote branches      branch that is not even fetched new  next fetch will store in remotes origin      branch that is not tracked      tracked     branch that is tracked          tracked     master                          tracked   Local branches configured for  git pull       branch that is tracked merges with remote branch that is tracked     master                 merges with remote master   Local refs configured for  git push       branch that is tracked pushes to branch that is tracked  fast-forwardable      master                 pushes to master                  up to date

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You also may do git fetch followed by a git branch -r  Without fetch you will not see the most current branches

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If there s a remote branch that you know should be listed  but it isn t getting listed  you might want to verify that your origin is set up properly with this   git remote show origin   If that s all good  maybe you should run an update   git remote update   Assuming that runs successfully  you should be able to do what the other answers say   git branch -r

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Make sure that the remote origin you are listing is really the repository that you want and not an older clone

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Git Branching - Remote Branches  git ls-remote   Git documentation

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git branch -a   grep remotes

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With Git Bash  you can use   git branch -a

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