Jan 12, 2019 · As the documentation of git branch explains, git branch --all (or -a) lists all the branches from the local repository, both the local and the remote tracking branches. A Git branch is just a pointer to a commit. A new repository (just …

Sep 11, 2012 · git branch -a shows both remote and local branches. git branch -r shows remote branches. Is there a way to list just the local branches?

Mar 4, 2011 · Worst case, I could always run git branch to get a list of all the branches, parse its output, and then git log -n 1 branchname --format=format:%ci for each one, to get each branch's commit date.

Feb 28, 2020 · 1 The Git documentation mostly calls these remote-tracking branch names, but I think the meaning is eventually clearer if we leave the word branch out of here. 2 All of Git's names—branch names, tag names, remote-tracking names, and other such names—live in namespaces and have longer, fully-qualified names to make them explicit. For instance, your …

I cloned a Git repository containing many branches. However, git branch only shows one: $ git branch * master How would I pull all the branches locally so when I do git branch, it shows the follow...

Aug 12, 2010 · 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.)

Based on my search , the below 2 commands are supposed to give me remote branches with their author name. However, I get nothing in return - do you know why ? I am using windows command prompt. The

Apr 26, 2018 · This returns a list of all branches that were merged into master even when I specify integrationBranch. For example, git branch -a --merged | wc -l returns 5k some branches, and git branch -a --merged integrationBranch | wc -l also returns 5k some branches

Apr 9, 2012 · How can it possible to get all names of some remote origin branches? I started from --remote --list options, but got redundant origin/HEAD -> origin/master message and branches from the another origin.

How can I get a list of Git branches, ordered by most recent commit? (34 answers)