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munyengm
munyengm

Reputation: 15489

Git: How do I list only local branches?

git branch -a shows both remote and local branches.

git branch -r shows remote branches.

Is there a way to list just the local branches?

Upvotes: 1139

Views: 831152

Answers (15)

jthill
jthill

Reputation: 60383

To list local-only branches, local branches not tracking a remote upstream,

git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short) %(upstream)'    refs/heads \
| grep -v ' refs/remotes/'

Upvotes: 0

Thomas BDX
Thomas BDX

Reputation: 2800

Using git branch's --format, you can show local branches and their configured remote and merge configuration (as found in the repo's .git/config file).

git branch --format='%(HEAD) %(refname:short) -> %(upstream:short)'

See the format doc for git for-each-ref which is used by git branch

You can add it as an alias in your ~/.gitconfig

[alias]
        [...]
        brem = branch --format='%(HEAD) %(refname:short) -> %(upstream:short)'
        [...]

Example

  • There are 5 local branches
  • There are 2 remote locations: origin and upstream
  • Local branch named upstream is configured to push/pull to the upstream's main branch
  • Local branch named test has not been pushed anywhere and does not have a remote / merge configured
> git branch --format='%(HEAD) %(refname:short) -> %(upstream:short)'
* main -> origin/main
  release/v0.01 -> origin/release/v0.01
  release/v0.02 -> origin/release/v0.02
  test ->
  upstream -> upstream/main

Upvotes: 1

jlsanchezr
jlsanchezr

Reputation: 159

Other way for get a list just local branch is:

git branch -a | grep -v 'remotes'

Upvotes: 14

John Marter
John Marter

Reputation: 731

If the leading asterisk is a problem, I pipe the git branch as follows

git branch | awk -F ' +' '! /\(no branch\)/ {print $2}'

This also eliminates the '(no branch)' line that shows up when you have detached head.

Upvotes: 36

Victor Yarema
Victor Yarema

Reputation: 1335

One of the most straightforward ways to do it is

git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/

This works perfectly for scripts as well.

Upvotes: 50

Nirav Ghodadra
Nirav Ghodadra

Reputation: 352

These are all the commands that you can use for branches

  1. Show all local branches:

    git branch

  2. Show local branches with extra information:

    git branch -v

    It shows the last commit message along with the branch name

  3. Show all branches (local and remote):

    git branch -a

  4. Show remote branches:

    git branch -r

  5. Show all branches with additional tracking details:

    git branch -vv

    This command shows both local and remote branches along with tracking information.

  6. Show local branches sorted by their last commit date:

    git branch --sort=-committerdate

    This command lists local branches sorted by their last commit date, with the most recent branch first.

  7. Show merged branches:

    git branch --merged

    This command lists branches that have been merged into the currently checked out branch.

  8. Show branches that have not been merged:

    git branch --no-merged

    This command lists branches that have not been merged into the currently checked out branch.

Upvotes: 3

Kyrylo
Kyrylo

Reputation: 11

List all local branches that might have remote git branch

To list local branches with changes that not merged to remote yet git branch --list --no-merged

To list local that never was linked to remote git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}'

Upvotes: 1

shortduck
shortduck

Reputation: 1535

git branch -a - All branches.

git branch -r - Remote branches only.

git branch - Local branches (contains local branches linked to a remote branch).

Upvotes: 131

RBT
RBT

Reputation: 25935

To complement gertvdijk's answer - I'm adding few screenshots in case it helps someone quick.

In my Git Bash shell if I run below command:

git branch

This command (without parameters) shows all my local branches. The current branch which is currently checked out is shown in different color (green) along with an asterisk (*) prefix which is really intuitive.

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When you try to see all branches including the remote branches using -a(stands for all) parameter:

git branch -a

Then remote branches which aren't checked out yet are also shown in different (red) color:

Enter image description here

Upvotes: 5

pavol.kutaj
pavol.kutaj

Reputation: 539

PowerShell users can use its Compare-Object cmdlet to do something like this:

function match-branch {
    $localBranches = ((git branch -l) -replace "\*", "") -replace " ", ""
    $remoteBranches = (((git branch -r) -replace "\*", "") -replace " ", "") -replace "origin/", ""
    Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $localBranches -DifferenceObject $remoteBranches -IncludeEqual
    | Select-Object @{Label = "branch"; Expression = { $_.InputObject } },
    @{Label = ”both”; Expression = { $_.SideIndicator -eq "==" } },
    @{Label = ”remoteOnly”; Expression = { $_.SideIndicator -eq "=>" } },
    @{Label = ”localOnly”; Expression = { $_.SideIndicator -eq "<=" } }
}

Example Output

branch        both remoteOnly localOnly
------        ---- ---------- ---------
master        True      False     False
HEAD->master False       True     False
renamed      False       True     False

Upvotes: 0

sdc
sdc

Reputation: 3041

Use:

git show-ref --heads

The answer by gertvdijk is the most concise and elegant, but this may help grasp the idea that refs/heads/* are equivalent to local branches.

Most of the time the refs/heads/master ref is a file at .git/refs/heads/master that contains a Git commit hash that points to the Git object that represents the current state of your local master branch, so each file under .git/refs/heads/* represents a local branch.

Upvotes: 0

Samwar
Samwar

Reputation: 143

There's a great answer to a post about how to delete local-only branches. In it, the following builds a command to list out the local branches:

git branch -vv | cut -c 3- | awk '$3 !~/\[/ { print $1 }'

The answer has a great explanation about how this command was derived, so I would suggest you go and read that post.

Upvotes: 8

c00kiemon5ter
c00kiemon5ter

Reputation: 17654

Just the plain command

git branch

Upvotes: 252

gertvdijk
gertvdijk

Reputation: 24864

Just git branch without options.

From the manpage:

With no arguments, existing branches are listed and the current branch will be highlighted with an asterisk.

Upvotes: 1658

Shnatsel
Shnatsel

Reputation: 4209

Here's how to list local branches that do not have a remote branch in origin with the same name:

git branch | sed 's|* |  |' | sort > local
git branch -r | sed 's|origin/||' | sort > remote
comm -23 local remote

Upvotes: 19

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