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

The quickest way to list available branches without cloning/downloading anything is this one-liner:

$ git ls-remote -h https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest.git