Git - Remote branch

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A remote branch is a branch in a remote repository. (remote reference).

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Type

• Git - Upstream Branch (Tracking branch)

Management

List

git branch -r -l '<remote>/<pattern>'

git branch --remotes
# or
git remote show [remote]

Example:

git remote show origin

* remote origin
  Fetch URL: https://github.com/apache/spark.git
  Push  URL: https://github.com/apache/spark.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branches:
    branch-0.5      tracked
    branch-0.6      tracked
    branch-0.7      tracked
    branch-0.8      tracked
    branch-0.9      tracked
    branch-1.0      tracked
    branch-1.0-jdbc tracked
    branch-1.1      tracked
    branch-1.2      tracked
    branch-1.3      tracked
    branch-1.4      tracked
    branch-1.5      tracked
    branch-1.6      tracked
    branch-2.0      tracked
    branch-2.1      tracked
    branch-2.2      tracked
    branch-2.3      tracked
    master          tracked
  Local branches configured for 'git pull':
    branch-2.3 merges with remote branch-2.3
    master     merges with remote master
  Local refs configured for 'git push':
    branch-2.3 pushes to branch-2.3 (up to date)
    master     pushes to master     (up to date)

where:

• Git - Pull and Git - Push

Delete

git push --delete <remote> <branchname>

Prune

git remote prune

Pull

To get the commit from a remote branch, you do a pull (ie a git fetch followed by git merge FETCH_HEAD)

Fetch (Sync information locally)

A fetch will get new branch information locally (ie branch created on the remote)

Example:

git fetch

From https://github.com/name/repoName
 * [new branch]      dev        -> origin/dev

To get the data in the local branch, you need to merge and if you want to do all in one move, you can just use pull