How to find all the open branches in a repository

Summary

This document covers how to list every branch that is open or un-merged in a repository.

Solution

• Whether a branch is unmerged or merged is decided with the perspective of the main/master branch. If you are looking for whether a branch is merged into master branch for example, the below command will give you the list of branches -

  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 git checkout master (This command will set your current branch to master) git branch --no-merged Sample Output: git branch --no-merged release/feature-123 release/feature-267 QA

• You can also skip the checkout and directly enter the branch name as shown below -

  1 git branch --no-merged master

• However, your local repository copy might not contain all the branches of the remote. Hence, it is better to perform a mirror clone first and then run the above commands on the mirror clone since it will contain all the branches. The below command will help you make a mirror clone -

  1 git clone --mirror https://<Bitbucket Username>@bitbucket.org/<Workspace ID>/<Repository Name>.git