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GIT-LS-REMOTE(1)               Git Manual               GIT-LS-REMOTE(1)

NAME         top

       git-ls-remote - List references in a remote repository

SYNOPSIS         top

       git ls-remote [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>]
                     [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url] [--sort=<key>]
                     [--symref] [<repository> [<patterns>...]]

DESCRIPTION         top

       Displays references available in a remote repository along with
       the associated commit IDs.

OPTIONS         top

       -h, --heads, -t, --tags
           Limit to only refs/heads and refs/tags, respectively. These
           options are not mutually exclusive; when given both,
           references stored in refs/heads and refs/tags are displayed.
           Note that git ls-remote -h used without anything else on the
           command line gives help, consistent with other git
           subcommands.

       --refs
           Do not show peeled tags or pseudorefs like HEAD in the
           output.

       -q, --quiet
           Do not print remote URL to stderr.

       --upload-pack=<exec>
           Specify the full path of git-upload-pack on the remote host.
           This allows listing references from repositories accessed via
           SSH and where the SSH daemon does not use the PATH configured
           by the user.

       --exit-code
           Exit with status "2" when no matching refs are found in the
           remote repository. Usually the command exits with status "0"
           to indicate it successfully talked with the remote
           repository, whether it found any matching refs.

       --get-url
           Expand the URL of the given remote repository taking into
           account any "url.<base>.insteadOf" config setting (See
           git-config(1)) and exit without talking to the remote.

       --symref
           In addition to the object pointed by it, show the underlying
           ref pointed by it when showing a symbolic ref. Currently,
           upload-pack only shows the symref HEAD, so it will be the
           only one shown by ls-remote.

       --sort=<key>
           Sort based on the key given. Prefix - to sort in descending
           order of the value. Supports "version:refname" or "v:refname"
           (tag names are treated as versions). The "version:refname"
           sort order can also be affected by the "versionsort.suffix"
           configuration variable. See git-for-each-ref(1) for more sort
           options, but be aware keys like committerdate that require
           access to the objects themselves will not work for refs whose
           objects have not yet been fetched from the remote, and will
           give a missing object error.

       -o <option>, --server-option=<option>
           Transmit the given string to the server when communicating
           using protocol version 2. The given string must not contain a
           NUL or LF character. When multiple --server-option=<option>
           are given, they are all sent to the other side in the order
           listed on the command line.

       <repository>
           The "remote" repository to query. This parameter can be
           either a URL or the name of a remote (see the GIT URLS and
           REMOTES sections of git-fetch(1)).

       <patterns>...
           When unspecified, all references, after filtering done with
           --heads and --tags, are shown. When <patterns>... are
           specified, only references matching one or more of the given
           patterns are displayed. Each pattern is interpreted as a glob
           (see glob in gitglossary(7)) which is matched against the
           "tail" of a ref, starting either from the start of the ref
           (so a full name like refs/heads/foo matches) or from a slash
           separator (so bar matches refs/heads/bar but not
           refs/heads/foobar).

OUTPUT         top

       The output is in the format:

           <oid> TAB <ref> LF

       When showing an annotated tag, unless --refs is given, two such
       lines are shown: one with the refname for the tag itself as
       <ref>, and another with <ref> followed by ^{}. The <oid> on the
       latter line shows the name of the object the tag points at.

EXAMPLES         top

       •   List all references (including symbolics and pseudorefs),
           peeling tags:

               $ git ls-remote
               27d43aaaf50ef0ae014b88bba294f93658016a2e        HEAD
               950264636c68591989456e3ba0a5442f93152c1a        refs/heads/main
               d9ab777d41f92a8c1684c91cfb02053d7dd1046b        refs/heads/next
               d4ca2e3147b409459955613c152220f4db848ee1        refs/tags/v2.40.0
               73876f4861cd3d187a4682290ab75c9dccadbc56        refs/tags/v2.40.0^{}

       •   List all references matching given patterns:

               $ git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git master seen rc
               5fe978a5381f1fbad26a80e682ddd2a401966740        refs/heads/master
               c781a84b5204fb294c9ccc79f8b3baceeb32c061        refs/heads/seen

       •   List only tags matching a given wildcard pattern:

               $ git ls-remote --tags http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git v\*
               485a869c64a68cc5795dd99689797c5900f4716d        refs/tags/v2.39.2
               cbf04937d5b9fcf0a76c28f69e6294e9e3ecd7e6        refs/tags/v2.39.2^{}
               d4ca2e3147b409459955613c152220f4db848ee1        refs/tags/v2.40.0
               73876f4861cd3d187a4682290ab75c9dccadbc56        refs/tags/v2.40.0^{}

SEE ALSO         top

       git-check-ref-format(1).

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

COLOPHON         top

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