Pragmatic Guide to Git

14	Viewing Branches

You need to be able to see what branches your repository has in it so you can switch between them. You can use a visualization tool such as gitk [13] or GitX.[14] You can use git branch to get the same information, however.

You can view local, remote, or all branches depending on which parameters you pass to git branch. Calling git branch by itself shows you your local branches. You can add either the -r parameter or the -aparameter to view only the remote branches or all the branches, respectively.

Your current branch always has an asterisk before it in the output from git branch. It’s colored green if you turned on color output (see Task 2, ​Configuring Git​). Likewise, remote branches are colored red if colors ...