Example:
tom1 ~/emacs/spacemacs/.emacs.d $ export LANG=en_US.utf8
tom1 ~/emacs/spacemacs/.emacs.d $ git ls-remote -h
usage: git ls-remote [--heads] [--tags] [--refs] [--upload-pack=<exec>]
[-q | --quiet] [--exit-code] [--get-url]
[--symref] [<repository> [<refs>...]]
-q, --quiet do not print remote URL
--upload-pack <exec> path of git-upload-pack on the remote host
-t, --tags limit to tags
-h, --heads limit to heads
--refs do not show peeled tags
--get-url take url.<base>.insteadOf into account
--exit-code exit with exit code 2 if no matching refs are
found
--symref show underlying ref in addition to the object
pointed by it
tom1 ~/emacs/spacemacs/.emacs.d $ git ls-remote --head
From https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
07014deead544c51fa6a826e91fe2ef05bf04323 refs/heads/develop
8e1af145480d53e8d32cdff2c83291889903164b refs/heads/master
2450b7e276634ece07b6b7ec6ca6c287af86caf3 refs/heads/release-0.101
8dadfc1494544bb152e80c2a436e43bc3713b389 refs/heads/release-0.102
d993a021847cde2c42865bab6afa8adbb2edda0b refs/heads/release-0.103
44d4525543b1f2a385142721d0cb16cd3b0be580 refs/heads/release-0.104
9f9faa404e3dec3e08cc73cf7b5a0439fc309800 refs/heads/release-0.105
8e1af145480d53e8d32cdff2c83291889903164b refs/heads/release-0.200
tom1 ~/emacs/spacemacs/.emacs.d $ git --version
git version 2.14.2
on archlinux: Linux achse 4.13.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 6
09:58:47 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
