1git-show-ref(1) 2=============== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-show-ref - List references in a local repository 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 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] 14 15DESCRIPTION 16----------- 17 18Displays references available in a local repository along with the associated 19commit IDs. Results can be filtered using a pattern and tags can be 20dereferenced into object IDs. Additionally, it can be used to test whether a 21particular ref exists. 22 23The --exclude-existing form is a filter that does the inverse, it shows the 24refs from stdin that don't exist in the local repository. 25 26Use of this utility is encouraged in favor of directly accessing files under 27in the `.git` directory. 28 29OPTIONS 30------- 31 32-h, --head:: 33 34 Show the HEAD reference. 35 36--tags, --heads:: 37 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. 41 42-d, --dereference:: 43 44 Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with "^{}" 45 appended. 46 47-s, --hash:: 48 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. 51 52--verify:: 53 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. 57 58--abbrev, --abbrev=len:: 59 60 Abbreviate the object name. When using `--hash`, you do 61 not have to say `--hash --abbrev`; `--hash=len` would do. 62 63-q, --quiet:: 64 65 Do not print any results to stdout. When combined with '--verify' this 66 can be used to silently check if a reference exists. 67 68--exclude-existing, --exclude-existing=pattern:: 69 70 Make git-show-ref act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the 71 form "^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^\{\})?$" and performs the 72 following actions on each: 73 (1) strip "^{}" at the end of line if any; 74 (2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname; 75 (3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip; 76 (4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository; 77 (5) otherwise output the line. 78 79 80<pattern>:: 81 82 Show references matching one or more patterns. 83 84OUTPUT 85------ 86 87The output is in the format: '<SHA-1 ID>' '<space>' '<reference name>'. 88 89----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90$ git show-ref --head --dereference 91832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 HEAD 92832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 refs/heads/master 93832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 refs/heads/origin 943521017556c5de4159da4615a39fa4d5d2c279b5 refs/tags/v0.99.9c 956ddc0964034342519a87fe013781abf31c6db6ad refs/tags/v0.99.9c^{} 96055e4ae3ae6eb344cbabf2a5256a49ea66040131 refs/tags/v1.0rc4 97423325a2d24638ddcc82ce47be5e40be550f4507 refs/tags/v1.0rc4^{} 98... 99----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 100 101When using --hash (and not --dereference) the output format is: '<SHA-1 ID>' 102 103----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 104$ git show-ref --heads --hash 1052e3ba0114a1f52b47df29743d6915d056be13278 106185008ae97960c8d551adcd9e23565194651b5d1 10703adf42c988195b50e1a1935ba5fcbc39b2b029b 108... 109----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 110 111EXAMPLE 112------- 113 114To show all references called "master", whether tags or heads or anything 115else, and regardless of how deep in the reference naming hierarchy they are, 116use: 117 118----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 119 git show-ref master 120----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 121 122This will show "refs/heads/master" but also "refs/remote/other-repo/master", 123if such references exists. 124 125When using the '--verify' flag, the command requires an exact path: 126 127----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 128 git show-ref --verify refs/heads/master 129----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 130 131will only match the exact branch called "master". 132 133If nothing matches, linkgit:git-show-ref[1] will return an error code of 1, 134and in the case of verification, it will show an error message. 135 136For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the "--quiet" flag, which 137allows you to do things like 138 139----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 140 git-show-ref --quiet --verify -- "refs/heads/$headname" || 141 echo "$headname is not a valid branch" 142----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 143 144to check whether a particular branch exists or not (notice how we don't 145actually want to show any results, and we want to use the full refname for it 146in order to not trigger the problem with ambiguous partial matches). 147 148To show only tags, or only proper branch heads, use "--tags" and/or "--heads" 149respectively (using both means that it shows tags and heads, but not other 150random references under the refs/ subdirectory). 151 152To do automatic tag object dereferencing, use the "-d" or "--dereference" 153flag, so you can do 154 155----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 156 git show-ref --tags --dereference 157----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 158 159to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference. 160 161SEE ALSO 162-------- 163linkgit:git-ls-remote[1] 164 165AUTHORS 166------- 167Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>. 168Man page by Jonas Fonseca <fonseca@diku.dk>. 169 170GIT 171--- 172Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite