git “ping”: check if remote repository exists

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I'd like to know whether a remote repository exists. Here's what I came up with:

git ls-remote "$REPO_URL" &> /dev/null

Is there any better way?

asked Dec 31 '10 at 0:34

Jo Liss
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It seems like a fine choice. The overhead of the “extra work” of fetching and formatting the list of refs (which is then sent to /dev/null) should be fairly small. – Chris Johnsen Dec 31 '10 at 0:57

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I think the git ls-remote command is pretty much made for that purpose.

answered Jan 1 '11 at 12:08

Peter Eisentraut
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Thanks Chris, thanks Peter! – Jo Liss Jan 2 '11 at 17:43

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