git-ls-remote

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

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

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

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

OPTIONS
       -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.

       --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)).

       <refs>...
           When unspecified, all references, after filtering done with --heads
           and --tags, are shown. When <refs>... are specified, only
           references matching the given patterns are displayed.

EXAMPLES
           $ git ls-remote --tags ./.
           d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a        refs/tags/v0.99
           f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41        refs/tags/v0.99.1
           7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e        refs/tags/v0.99.3
           c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441        refs/tags/v0.99.2
           0918385dbd9656cab0d1d81ba7453d49bbc16250        refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub
           $ git ls-remote http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git master pu rc
           5fe978a5381f1fbad26a80e682ddd2a401966740        refs/heads/master
           c781a84b5204fb294c9ccc79f8b3baceeb32c061        refs/heads/pu
           $ git remote add korg http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
           $ git ls-remote --tags korg v\*
           d6602ec5194c87b0fc87103ca4d67251c76f233a        refs/tags/v0.99
           f25a265a342aed6041ab0cc484224d9ca54b6f41        refs/tags/v0.99.1
           c5db5456ae3b0873fc659c19fafdde22313cc441        refs/tags/v0.99.2
           7ceca275d047c90c0c7d5afb13ab97efdf51bd6e        refs/tags/v0.99.3

SEE ALSO
       git-check-ref-format(1).

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.25.1                        04/26/2023                  GIT-LS-REMOTE(1)