How do i get commit logs of a remote located branch?

Question

Without cloning the repository, Is it possible to get the following from command-line/git bash,

1. List of branches in the repository
2. git logs of specific branch

Answer 1

I'm not sure if its possible to get logs without cloning, but once you've cloned its as easy as something like git log origin/dev where origin is the remote repo and dev is the branch in question to get logs without checking out the branch.

There is another similar question that relies on running ssh commands remotely on the repo's server. https://stackoverflow.com/a/1178586/563381

Answer 2

As far as i am aware the only way to do is to connect to server using ssh and running the git log on the server

ssh remote@host "cd repo && git log"

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