Checkout or list remote branches in GitPython

Question

I don\'t see an option to checkout or list remote/local branches in this module: https://gitpython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Answer 1

I had a similar issue. In my case I only wanted to list the remote branches that are tracked locally. This worked for me:

import git

repo = git.Repo(repo_path)
branches = []
for r in repo.branches:
    branches.append(r)
    # check if a tracking branch exists
    tb = t.tracking_branch()
    if tb:
        branches.append(tb) 

In case all remote branches are needed, I would prefer running git directly:

def get_all_branches(path):
    cmd = ['git', '-C', path, 'branch', '-a']
    out = subprocess.check_output(cmd, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    return out