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Asked: 2026-05-23T13:27:15+00:00

I’m going through a tutorial and it said this command, git branch -a would

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I’m going through a tutorial and it said this command, “git branch -a” would list all my remotes, both local and remote. So i did that and this is what i got.

David-Adamss-MacBook-Pro:releventz davidadams$ git branch -a
* master
  remotes/flashdrive/master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
David-Adamss-MacBook-Pro:releventz davidadams$

Master is the branch i’m currently on and is green. All three remote branches are red. I had a little trouble when i was trying to get the path right to my remote to add and push to. Could that be a reason i have three remote branches instead of just one? I just added ‘flashdrive’ as my remote and pushed to it. So i know that’s the most recent but what are the other two?

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  1. Editorial Team

    origin is the default name of the git remote repository from where you clone your local repository.

    • remotes/origin/master: the master branch from the origin repository.
    • remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master: the HEAD branch, a kind of branch that represent *the current branch** (in fact that’s not true but it’s a little more complicated, see What is HEAD in Git?)

    Obviously, the last branch, is a remote master branch, located on the remote repository you just added.

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