get list of git branches for a repo hosted on github

问题

Is there a command line way of getting the list of branches available in a repo hosted in GITHUB (without creating and running commands from within a clone)?

I tried using curl on the url that shows the branches list and getting the content.

回答1:

git ls-remote --heads <repo-url>

Man page of git ls-remote.

For example, to git the branches of git's git repo use

$git ls-remote --heads git://github.com/git/git.git      
121f71f0da1bc9a4e1e96be2c3e683191a82a354    refs/heads/maint
f623ca1cae600e97cb0b38131fdd33e4fb669cf8    refs/heads/master
8e148144574e6c6511b591286e44a677a260d760    refs/heads/next
fcdb578342aeaf355c296026af08093b20aab9b4    refs/heads/pu
5321cb29c8f709669c5e4a04f502cd984623592c    refs/heads/todo

回答2:

Using the GitHub API:
Send a GET HTTP request to
https://api.github.com/repos/username/reponame/branches
The reply should be an array of objects, which have the name attribute being the branch name.

Source:
https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-branches

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10911923/get-list-of-git-branches-for-a-repo-hosted-on-github