131 

   132 Managing branches

   133 =================

   134 

   135 Print current branch::

   136 

   137   $ git branch

   138 

   139 List all known branches::

   140 

   141   $ git branch -a

   142 

   143 List all known remote branches::

   144 

   145   $ git branch -r

   146 

   147 List all remote branches (from all remotes)::

   148 

   149   $ git ls-remote

   150 

   151 List remote branches from ``$REMOTE`` remote::

   152 

   153   $ git ls-remote --heads $REMOTE

   154   $ git remote show $REMOTE

   155 

   156 .. note::

   157 

   158    Look to ``[remote "..."]`` in ``~/.git/config`` to find out names of possible

   159    remotes. Alternatively get list from::

   160 

   161      $ git remote show

   162 

   163 Getting branches pointers from default (``origin``) remote::

   164 

   165   $ git fetch

   166 

   167 Getting branches pointers from ``$REMOTE`` remote::

   168 

   169   $ git fetch $REMOTE

   170 

   171 .. note::

   172 

   173    Only curtain branches fetched by default::

   174 

   175      [remote "origin"]

   176 	 url = ...

   177 	 fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

   178 

   179    Edit ``fetch`` value to change defaults.

   180 

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