List all the active branches in Git remote

Question

I am looking for a way to list all the active branches that are available on remote git repository. I tried:

git branch -r 

But this listed the already deleted branches as well. I do not want the list to display deleted branches.

Answer 1

You can try (using git ls-remote):

git ls-remote --heads origin

That would list the branches directly from the remote repo. No fetch necessary.