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
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
See list of "Codenames, Tags, and Build Numbers" at http://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html
git access is refused
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.
For the repository you have perform repo sync
. You can find them in your local directory .repo/manifests
. Suppose you check aosp
to ~/aosp
.
$ cd ~/aosp/.repo/manifests
$ git branch -r
The manifests are already checked out as part of the repo init process. To get a list of available branches, (from your android repo checkout root), use this command:
git --git-dir .repo/manifests/.git/ branch -a
Assuming at the top of an AOSP tree, a list of tags can be shown either,
$ git --git-dir .repo/manifests.git tag -l
or
$ (cd .repo/manifests; git tag -l; )