Manual: git-ls-remote

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

SYNOPSIS
       git ls-remote [--branches] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=]
		     [-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url] [--sort=]
		     [--symref] [ [...]]

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

OPTIONS
       -b, --branches, -t, --tags
	   Limit to only local branches and local tags, respectively. These options are not mutually
	   exclusive; when given both, references stored in refs/heads and refs/tags are displayed. Note
	   that --heads and -h are deprecated synonyms for --branches and -b and may be removed in the
	   future. Also 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=
	   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..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=
	   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 , --server-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= are given,
	   they are all sent to the other side in the order listed on the command line. When no
	   --server-option= is given from the command line, the values of configuration variable
	   remote..serverOption are used instead.

       
	   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)).

       ...
	   When unspecified, all references, after filtering done with --heads and --tags, are shown. When
	   ... 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
       The output is in the format:

	    TAB  LF

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

EXAMPLES
       •   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
       git-check-ref-format(1).

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.53.0					 03/02/2026				    GIT-LS-REMOTE(1)