How to display available branches in Android source tree?

Question

Following directions on Android\'s main website to pull down sources, I\'m looking at this command to initialize repo for the cupcake branch:

repo init -u git://an

Answer 1

It doesn't seem to be possible using the "repo" script, but you can query the list of available branches using git:

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest.git
$ cd manifest
$ git branch -r

If you don't want to clone the repository just for this, you can see the branches on the web interface.