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Git is specifically known as a distributed version control system, there is no central server where we push the code. Nevertheless, we push and pull the required changes in other repositories that we need in branches directly. It gives us the opportunity to branch from the original code base at any time. It allows us to collaborate with other developers more easily and provides a lot of flexibility in our workflow in a team.

You can have multiple local repositories on different machines and push them to the same remote repository when the work is completed. This allows us to clone a repository on one machine to our second machine and start working from there.

Remote tracking branches are local branches that track remote branches. They are local pointers to our remote repository and can be easily used to quickly switch to remote branches. The command git remotecan be used to create them (they are --trackcreated with the -p option), and they can be used like any other local branch. It is usually created using the following command.

git branch --track <remote-branch> <local-branch>

--trackOptions can be added git branchto the command, and we can also use it to track branch commits, as follows:

git branch --track <remote-branch> <local-branch>.

List Git remote branches

In this section, we will discuss how to list all remote branches in Git. We can list the remote branches associated with multiple commands listed below. There are various commands in Git that can display different types of branches depending on your current situation in the repository.

We will use git branchthe command to view local branches. git branch -aThe command lists the local branches and remote tracking branches that we have set up to keep in sync with the remote branches. git branch -rThe command lists the remote tracking branches but not the local branches. git remote showThe command can also list remote branches. The syntax for list branches in Git is as follows.

git branch -a 

git branch -r 命令The syntax is as follows.

git branch -r

git remote showThe command syntax is,

git remote show [name]

Where nameis the name of the remote branch in the repository. To view the remote branch connected to the master branch in our remote origin repository, use the following command:

git branch -r origin/master

We will use the following command to view the remote tracking branch connected to the master branch in the remote origin repository.

git branch -a origin/master

We can say, to see remote branches that are not tracked by your local repository, add -athe flag.

git remote show origin -a * remote origin 

If we have a lot of remote branches, we may find it useful to limit the output to only the tracked remote branches using the following command.

git remote show origin --tracked * remote origin