Detect and pull all github branches

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Can i detect all branches in my github repos? I'd like to write a .sh script that loops thru the branches and pulls each one.

Tekkub · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-26 20:23:22Z

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git fetch will bring down all branches from the remote repo. Note that it will not pull the branches, pull is fetch + merge, which is probably not what you want to do.

answered Jul 26, 2011 at 20:23

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Boz Over a year ago

I need to detect and then pull each branch into a separate folder. Look at this post to see when I asked this question stackoverflow.com/questions/6803119/… any comments welcome.

Tekkub Over a year ago

This might be what you're after then: stackoverflow.com/questions/6270193/…

seanhodges · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-26 15:08:59Z

The github2 module for Python provides an API library with commands for listing the branches in a repo, see this documentation.

If Python isn't your thing, take a look at the list of libraries for other languages.

Great. And here is the command. GET /repos/:user/:repo/branches

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