How to examine a remote with git remote
and git ls-remote
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Local branches:
$ git branch * master $
Remote branches:
$ git branch -r origin/HEAD -> origin/master origin/master $
All branches:
$ git branch -a * master remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/master $
Verbose branches:
$ git branch -v * master 610cd4eadec4 Merge branch 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip $
$ git branch -vv * master 610cd4eadec4 [origin/master] Merge ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ $
$ git remote origin $
$ git remote -v origin https://github.com/torvalds/linux (fetch) origin https://github.com/torvalds/linux (push) $
$ git remote show origin * remote origin Fetch URL: https://github.com/torvalds/linux Push URL: https://github.com/torvalds/linux HEAD branch: master Remote branch: master tracked Local branch configured for 'git pull': master merges with remote master Local ref configured for 'git push': master pushes to master (up to date) $
Lots of options here …
$ git ls-remote origin 610cd4eadec4f97acd25d3108b0e50d1362b3319 HEAD 610cd4eadec4f97acd25d3108b0e50d1362b3319 refs/heads/master 51b8b4fb32271d39fbdd760397406177b2b0fd36 refs/pull/10/head 02b5a6031ba7a8cbfde5d65ff9e13ecdbc4a92ca refs/pull/100/head 98eae511bd1cf61ba206c2a8efa896f22c52e005 refs/pull/100/merge 5c91199a463b2f3f6e2a256373cc86cde828c029 refs/pull/101/merge c0cae3784a6535760fce053bb1df01caf6ea69cb refs/pull/102/head 5e2308a3e03994015082ff1cbda5ad6ba579a591 refs/pull/102/merge 0131d367fa05d8bf72f2c34140ce64a9b98b5278 refs/pull/103/head b7f339a7f63d335135b76cfc1b28b77f3be622d4 refs/pull/103/merge ... snip ... 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c refs/tags/v2.6.11 c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a refs/tags/v2.6.11^{} 5dc01c595e6c6ec9ccda4f6f69c131c0dd945f8c refs/tags/v2.6.11-tree c39ae07f393806ccf406ef966e9a15afc43cc36a refs/tags/v2.6.11-tree^{} 26791a8bcf0e6d33f43aef7682bdb555236d56de refs/tags/v2.6.12 ... snip ... $
You can also refer to a URL:
$ git ls-remote https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git