6 git-show-ref - List references in a local repository
11 'git-show-ref' [-q|--quiet] [--verify] [-h|--head] [-d|--dereference]
12 [-s|--hash] [--abbrev] [--tags] [--heads] [--] <pattern>...
13 'git-show-ref' --exclude-existing[=pattern]
18 Displays references available in a local repository along with the associated
19 commit IDs. Results can be filtered using a pattern and tags can be
20 dereferenced into object IDs. Additionally, it can be used to test whether a
21 particular ref exists.
23 The --exclude-existing form is a filter that does the inverse, it shows the
24 refs from stdin that don't exist in the local repository.
26 Use of this utility is encouraged in favor of directly accessing files under
27 in the `.git` directory.
34 Show the HEAD reference.
38 Limit to only "refs/heads" and "refs/tags", respectively. These
39 options are not mutually exclusive; when given both, references stored
40 in "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" are displayed.
44 Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "^{}"
49 Only show the SHA1 hash, not the reference name. When also using
50 --dereference the dereferenced tag will still be shown after the SHA1.
54 Enable stricter reference checking by requiring an exact ref path.
55 Aside from returning an error code of 1, it will also print an error
56 message if '--quiet' was not specified.
58 --abbrev, --abbrev=len::
60 Abbreviate the object name. When using `--hash`, you do
61 not have to say `--hash --abbrev`; `--hash=len` would do.
65 Do not print any results to stdout. When combined with '--verify' this
66 can be used to silently check if a reference exists.
68 --exclude-existing, --exclude-existing=pattern::
70 Make git-show-ref act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the
71 form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the
72 following actions on each:
73 (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any;
74 (2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname;
75 (3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip;
76 (4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository;
77 (5) otherwise output the line.
82 Show references matching one or more patterns.
87 The output is in the format: '<SHA-1 ID>' '<space>' '<reference name>'.
89 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
90 $ git show-ref --head --dereference
91 832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 HEAD
92 832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 refs/heads/master
93 832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 refs/heads/origin
94 3521017556c5de4159da4615a39fa4d5d2c279b5 refs/tags/v0.99.9c
95 6ddc0964034342519a87fe013781abf31c6db6ad refs/tags/v0.99.9c^{}
96 055e4ae3ae6eb344cbabf2a5256a49ea66040131 refs/tags/v1.0rc4
97 423325a2d24638ddcc82ce47be5e40be550f4507 refs/tags/v1.0rc4^{}
99 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
101 When using --hash (and not --dereference) the output format is: '<SHA-1 ID>'
103 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
104 $ git show-ref --heads --hash
105 2e3ba0114a1f52b47df29743d6915d056be13278
106 185008ae97960c8d551adcd9e23565194651b5d1
107 03adf42c988195b50e1a1935ba5fcbc39b2b029b
109 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
114 To show all references called "master", whether tags or heads or anything
115 else, and regardless of how deep in the reference naming hierarchy they are,
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120 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
122 This will show "refs/heads/master" but also "refs/remote/other-repo/master",
123 if such references exists.
125 When using the '--verify' flag, the command requires an exact path:
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128 git show-ref --verify refs/heads/master
129 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
131 will only match the exact branch called "master".
133 If nothing matches, gitlink:git-show-ref[1] will return an error code of 1,
134 and in the case of verification, it will show an error message.
136 For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the "--quiet" flag, which
137 allows you to do things like
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140 git-show-ref --quiet --verify -- "refs/heads/$headname" ||
141 echo "$headname is not a valid branch"
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144 to check whether a particular branch exists or not (notice how we don't
145 actually want to show any results, and we want to use the full refname for it
146 in order to not trigger the problem with ambiguous partial matches).
148 To show only tags, or only proper branch heads, use "--tags" and/or "--heads"
149 respectively (using both means that it shows tags and heads, but not other
150 random references under the refs/ subdirectory).
152 To do automatic tag object dereferencing, use the "-d" or "--dereference"
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156 git show-ref --tags --dereference
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159 to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference.
163 gitlink:git-ls-remote[1], gitlink:git-peek-remote[1]
167 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>.
168 Man page by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>.
172 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite