This is also now avaialable with the [**github cli**][1] as well

```bash
gh repo list <Your_Name> --json nameWithOwner,defaultBranchRef
```

If you want to *slightly cleanup* the output, you can remap with [**jq**][2]

```bash
gh repo list <Your_Name> --json nameWithOwner,defaultBranchRef \
  --jq ".[] | { nameWithOwner , defaultBranch: .defaultBranchRef.name}"
```

The advantage to this approach being auth is integrated and much easier to manage

[1]: https://cli.github.com/
[2]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

My goal is to get the tree for the latest SHA in the default branch

    GET /repos/:owner/:repo/git/trees/:sha

How do I find the lastest SHA from the default branch?

I know that I can call

    GET /repos/:owner/:repo/branches/:branch

But I can't just use "master" for the branch as not all repos use master as the default branch.

How do I find out what the default branch for a repo is?

How do I find the default branch for a repository using the Github v3 API

Answer