Listing branches is essential for navigating Git repositories, understanding project structure, and managing multiple development streams in collaborative workflows. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I regularly list branches across multiple repositories to track feature development, review contributor work, and manage release branches. From my expertise, the most comprehensive approach is to use git branch with various flags for local and remote branch information. This method provides complete visibility into repository structure, branch status, and tracking relationships for effective branch management.