You can do this in a bit of Shell, no need for Node or a package. Example:
#!/bin/sh
remote="${1:-origin}"
# check if output is a terminal for color
if [ -t 1 ]; then
reset="$(printf '\033[0m')"
green="$(printf '\033[0;32m')"
yellow="$(printf '\033[0;33m')"
red="$(printf '\033[0;31m')"
else
reset=""
green=""
yellow=""
red=""
fi
# ensure we are in a Git repository
if ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1; then
exit 1
fi
# try to fetch but allow failure
git fetch --all 2>/dev/null
current_branch="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"
# get and clean remote branches
remote_branches=$(git branch -r | sed "s|^ *${remote}/||" | sed '/->/d' | sed 's/^ *//')
# get and clean local branches
local_branches=$(git branch | sed 's/^[* ]*//' | sed '/^$/d')
# combine and deduplicate all branches
all_branches=$(printf "%s\n%s\n" "$remote_branches" "$local_branches" | sort -u)
# loop through each branch and annotate
printf "%s\n" "$all_branches" | while IFS= read -r branch; do
prefix=" "
[ "$branch" = "$current_branch" ] && prefix="* "
echo "$local_branches" | grep -qx "$branch" && is_local=true || is_local=false
echo "$remote_branches" | grep -qx "$branch" && is_remote=true || is_remote=false
if [ "$is_local" = true ] && [ "$is_remote" = true ]; then
printf "%s%s%s (both)%s\n" "$green" "$prefix" "$branch" "$reset"
elif [ "$is_local" = true ]; then
printf "%s%s%s (local)%s\n" "$red" "$prefix" "$branch" "$reset"
elif [ "$is_remote" = true ]; then
printf "%s%s%s (remote)%s\n" "$yellow" "$prefix" "$branch" "$reset"
fi
doneBetter git branch -a
npm i -g git-all-branches
git all-branches # or git-all-branches
# Takes an optional argument, which is the name of a remote.
# Defaults to `origin`
git all-branches upstream