List remote branches

Summary

The list-remote-branches command help you find the branches to clone of a TFS server.

Synopsis

Usage: git tfs list-remote-branches tfs-url-or-instance-name
       git tfs list-remote-branches http://myTfsServer:8080/tfs/TfsRepository

  -h, -H, --help
  -V, --version
  -d, --debug                Show debug output about everything git-tfs does
  -u, --username=VALUE       TFS username
  -p, --password=VALUE       TFS password

Examples

To display all the remotes of a TFS server, do this:

git tfs list-remote-branches http://tfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

Output

TFS branches that could be cloned :

 $/project/trunk [*]
 |
 +- $/project/branch1
 |
 +- $/project/branch2
 |
 +- $/project/branch3
	|
	+- $/project/branche-1
	
Cloning root branches (marked by [*]) is recommended!

Then you can use the clone command with the good remote branch of your choice! However, it is recommanded to clone the root branch and then use the init-branch command to manage branches.

Authentication

If the TFS server need an authentication, you could use the --username and --password parameters. If you don't specify theses informations, you will be prompted to enter them. This informations are not store by git-tfs.

git tfs list-remote-branches http://tfs:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection -u=DISSRVTFS03\peter.pan -p=wendy

See also

• clone
• quick-clone
• init-branch