How do I list all remote branches in Git 1.7+?

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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 These lists get outdated though.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

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

Try this...

git fetch origin
git branch -a

Answer 6

But

git branch -ar

should do it.