How to display available branches in Android source tree?

Question

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...?

Solution 1

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.

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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

Solution 4

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

git access is refused

Solution 5

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

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Comments

[Cristian Ciupitu]

Git web interface for the people who don't want to clone the git repository just to see what branches are available.

[João Kleberson]

It seems that the location of manifests git location has changed: "git --git-dir .repo/manifests.git/ branch -a"

[gsgx]

@CristianCiupitu Your link seems to be broken. Here's the new link: android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest

[Cristian Ciupitu]

@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.