How to display available branches in Android source tree?

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Following directions on Android's main website to pull down sources, I'm looking at this command to initialize repo for the cupcake branch:

repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git -b cupcake

How can I view all available branches besides cupcake, i.e eclair, donut, etc...?

score 34 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 09 '15 at 08:58

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The quickest way to list available branches without cloning/downloading anything is this one-liner:

$ git ls-remote -h https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest.git

edited Feb 09 '15 at 08:58

Edd

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answered Apr 26 '12 at 12:05

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score 29 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 01 '16 at 19:34

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It doesn't seem to be possible using the "repo" script, but you can query the list of available branches using git:

$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest.git
$ cd manifest
$ git branch -r

If you don't want to clone the repository just for this, you can see the branches on the web interface.

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answered May 21 '10 at 08:17

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[Git web interface](http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/manifest.git;a=heads) for the people who don't want to clone the git repository just to see what branches are available. – Cristian Ciupitu Sep 15 '10 at 00:42
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@CristianCiupitu Your link seems to be broken. Here's the new link: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest – gsgx Aug 23 '12 at 05:55
@gsingh2011: thanks! Now I have the reputation required to mention the location in the answer, so that comments don't pile up on every change. – Cristian Ciupitu Aug 24 '12 at 00:11

score 18 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 07 '11 at 18:42

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The manifests are already checked out as part of the repo init process. To get a list of available branches, (from your android repo checkout root), use this command:

git --git-dir .repo/manifests/.git/ branch -a

answered Jul 07 '11 at 18:42

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It seems that the location of manifests git location has changed: "git --git-dir .repo/manifests.git/ branch -a" – Patrick Tsai Mar 04 '12 at 10:10

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 03 '12 at 20:15

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See list of "Codenames, Tags, and Build Numbers" at http://source.android.com/source/build-numbers.html

git access is refused

answered Feb 03 '12 at 20:15

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 18 '16 at 09:41

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For the repository you have perform repo sync. You can find them in your local directory .repo/manifests. Suppose you check aosp to ～/aosp.

$ cd ~/aosp/.repo/manifests
$ git branch -r

answered Jun 18 '16 at 09:41

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 10 '19 at 22:54

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Assuming at the top of an AOSP tree, a list of tags can be shown either,

$ git --git-dir .repo/manifests.git tag -l

or

$ (cd .repo/manifests; git tag -l; )

answered Jun 10 '19 at 22:54

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