Stefan Beller solution is based on the server, which may not be very easy to do when dealing with Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab and other God knows which provider. Konstantin ls-remote solution is the one I'm already using, but if I have several branches on that commit, I will not be able to decide. I thought that the 'main' branch information was stored in git, and possibly with some way to access it with a git command Thanks, Pedro Rijo 2016-01-14 18:31 GMT+00:00 Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix+git@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:17:48 +0000 > pedro rijo <pedrorijo91@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If I clone a repo, the repo will be on a specific branch, the 'main' >> (typically 'master') branch. > > `git clone` checks out the branch which is pointed by by the HEAD ref in > the source repository. > >> Is there any direct command to find that main branch, since that >> information is present? >> >> If so, is there any way to find it without actually cloning the repo >> (similar to git ls-remote)? > > Run `git ls-remote <url>` and, record the SHA1 name of the HEAD ref, > then look that name up in the list of the remaining refs. -- Obrigado, Pedro Rijo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html