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From: Alaa Nassef <alan.125@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:50:59 +0200
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Hello All,

What I need to do is to find out the default branch of of a remote repository, i.e. find out the branch where HEAD symbolic ref points to. I need to do this without cloning the whole repo, so that I can fetch only this branch.

Thanks & Best Regards
Alaa Nassef

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