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/> <img src="/images/icons/red-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/red-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/grey-dot.png" /> </span> <em class="date">2017-05-05</em> </a> </li> <li class="no-change"><span>2.1.4 → 2.5.6 no changes</span></li> <li> <a href="/docs/git-show-ref/2.0.5"><span class="version">2.0.5</span> <span class="diff"> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/green-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/red-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/red-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/grey-dot.png" /> <img src="/images/icons/grey-dot.png" /> </span> <em class="date">2014-12-17</em> </a> </li> <li> </li> </ol> <footer> <p>Check your version of git by running</p> <code class="command">git --version</code> </footer> </div> </div> <div id="main" data-pagefind-filter="category:reference" data-pagefind-meta="category:Reference" data-pagefind-weight="0.05" data-pagefind-body> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_name"><a class="anchor" href="#_name"></a>NAME</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>git-show-ref - List references in a local repository</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_synopsis"><a class="anchor" href="#_synopsis"></a>SYNOPSIS</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="verseblock"> <pre class="content"><em>git show-ref</em> [--head] [-d | --dereference] [-s | --hash[=<n>]] [--abbrev[=<n>]] [--branches] [--tags] [--] [<pattern>…​] <em>git show-ref</em> --verify [-q | --quiet] [-d | --dereference] [-s | --hash[=<n>]] [--abbrev[=<n>]] [--] [<ref>…​] <em>git show-ref</em> --exclude-existing[=<pattern>] <em>git show-ref</em> --exists <ref></pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_description"><a class="anchor" href="#_description"></a>DESCRIPTION</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Displays references available in a local repository along with the associated commit IDs. Results can be filtered using a pattern and tags can be dereferenced into object IDs. Additionally, it can be used to test whether a particular ref exists.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>By default, shows the tags, heads, and remote refs.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The <code>--exclude-existing</code> form is a filter that does the inverse. It reads refs from stdin, one ref per line, and shows those that don’t exist in the local repository.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The <code>--exists</code> form can be used to check for the existence of a single references. This form does not verify whether the reference resolves to an actual object.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Use of this utility is encouraged in favor of directly accessing files under the <code>.git</code> directory.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_options"><a class="anchor" href="#_options"></a>OPTIONS</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="dlist"> <dl> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---head"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---head"></a>--head </dt> <dd> <p>Show the HEAD reference, even if it would normally be filtered out.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---branches"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---branches"></a>--branches </dt> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---tags"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---tags"></a>--tags </dt> <dd> <p>Limit to local branches and local tags, respectively. These options are not mutually exclusive; when given both, references stored in "refs/heads" and "refs/tags" are displayed. Note that <code>--heads</code> is a deprecated synonym for <code>--branches</code> and may be removed in the future.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt--d"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt--d"></a>-d </dt> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---dereference"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---dereference"></a>--dereference </dt> <dd> <p>Dereference tags into object IDs as well. They will be shown with <code>^{}</code> appended.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt--s"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt--s"></a>-s </dt> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---hashltngt"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---hashltngt"></a>--hash[=<n>] </dt> <dd> <p>Only show the OID, not the reference name. When combined with <code>--dereference</code>, the dereferenced tag will still be shown after the OID.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---verify"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---verify"></a>--verify </dt> <dd> <p>Enable stricter reference checking by requiring an exact ref path. Aside from returning an error code of 1, it will also print an error message if <code>--quiet</code> was not specified.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---exists"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---exists"></a>--exists </dt> <dd> <p>Check whether the given reference exists. Returns an exit code of 0 if it does, 2 if it is missing, and 1 in case looking up the reference failed with an error other than the reference being missing.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---abbrevltngt"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---abbrevltngt"></a>--abbrev[=<n>] </dt> <dd> <p>Abbreviate the object name. When using <code>--hash</code>, you do not have to say <code>--hash --abbrev</code>; <code>--hash=n</code> would do.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt--q"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt--q"></a>-q </dt> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---quiet"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---quiet"></a>--quiet </dt> <dd> <p>Do not print any results to stdout. Can be used with <code>--verify</code> to silently check if a reference exists.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---exclude-existingltpatterngt"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt---exclude-existingltpatterngt"></a>--exclude-existing[=<pattern>] </dt> <dd> <p>Make <code>git show-ref</code> act as a filter that reads refs from stdin of the form <code>^(?:<anything>\s)?<refname>(?:\^{})?$</code> and performs the following actions on each: (1) strip <code>^{}</code> at the end of line if any; (2) ignore if pattern is provided and does not head-match refname; (3) warn if refname is not a well-formed refname and skip; (4) ignore if refname is a ref that exists in the local repository; (5) otherwise output the line.</p> </dd> <dt class="hdlist1" id="Documentation/git-show-ref.txt-ltpatterngt82308203"> <a class="anchor" href="#Documentation/git-show-ref.txt-ltpatterngt82308203"></a><pattern>…​ </dt> <dd> <p>Show references matching one or more patterns. Patterns are matched from the end of the full name, and only complete parts are matched, e.g. <em>master</em> matches <em>refs/heads/master</em>, <em>refs/remotes/origin/master</em>, <em>refs/tags/jedi/master</em> but not <em>refs/heads/mymaster</em> or <em>refs/remotes/master/jedi</em>.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_output"><a class="anchor" href="#_output"></a>OUTPUT</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>The output is in the format:</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><oid> SP <ref> LF</pre> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>For example,</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre>$ git show-ref --head --dereference 832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 HEAD 832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 refs/heads/master 832e76a9899f560a90ffd62ae2ce83bbeff58f54 refs/heads/origin 3521017556c5de4159da4615a39fa4d5d2c279b5 refs/tags/v0.99.9c 6ddc0964034342519a87fe013781abf31c6db6ad refs/tags/v0.99.9c^{} 055e4ae3ae6eb344cbabf2a5256a49ea66040131 refs/tags/v1.0rc4 423325a2d24638ddcc82ce47be5e40be550f4507 refs/tags/v1.0rc4^{} ...</pre> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>When using <code>--hash</code> (and not <code>--dereference</code>), the output is in the format:</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre><oid> LF</pre> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>For example,</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre>$ git show-ref --branches --hash 2e3ba0114a1f52b47df29743d6915d056be13278 185008ae97960c8d551adcd9e23565194651b5d1 03adf42c988195b50e1a1935ba5fcbc39b2b029b ...</pre> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_examples"><a class="anchor" href="#_examples"></a>EXAMPLES</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>To show all references called "master", whether tags or heads or anything else, and regardless of how deep in the reference naming hierarchy they are, use:</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre> git show-ref master</pre> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>This will show "refs/heads/master" but also "refs/remote/other-repo/master", if such references exist.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>When using the <code>--verify</code> flag, the command requires an exact path:</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre> git show-ref --verify refs/heads/master</pre> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>will only match the exact branch called "master".</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>If nothing matches, <code>git show-ref</code> will return an error code of 1, and in the case of verification, it will show an error message.</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>For scripting, you can ask it to be quiet with the <code>--quiet</code> flag, which allows you to do things like</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre> git show-ref --quiet --verify -- "refs/heads/$headname" || echo "$headname is not a valid branch"</pre> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>to check whether a particular branch exists or not (notice how we don’t actually want to show any results, and we want to use the full refname for it in order to not trigger the problem with ambiguous partial matches).</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>To show only tags, or only proper branch heads, use <code>--tags</code> and/or <code>--branches</code> respectively (using both means that it shows tags and branches, but not other random references under the refs/ subdirectory).</p> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>To do automatic tag object dereferencing, use the <code>-d</code> or <code>--dereference</code> flag, so you can do</p> </div> <div class="listingblock"> <div class="content"> <pre> git show-ref --tags --dereference</pre> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph"> <p>to get a listing of all tags together with what they dereference.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_files"><a class="anchor" href="#_files"></a>FILES</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p><code>.git/refs/*</code>, <code>.git/packed-refs</code></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_see_also"><a class="anchor" href="#_see_also"></a>SEE ALSO</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p><a href='/docs/git-for-each-ref'>git-for-each-ref[1]</a>, <a href='/docs/git-ls-remote'>git-ls-remote[1]</a>, <a href='/docs/git-update-ref'>git-update-ref[1]</a>, <a href='/docs/gitrepository-layout'>gitrepository-layout[5]</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect1"> <h2 id="_git"><a class="anchor" href="#_git"></a>GIT</h2> <div class="sectionbody"> <div class="paragraph"> <p>Part of the <a href='/docs/git'>git[1]</a> suite</p> </div> </div> </div> <h3 hidden="true" data-pagefind-weight="7">show-ref</h3> </div> </div> </div> <footer> <div class="site-source"> <a href="/site">About this site</a><br> Patches, 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