Is it possible to use the gift library to view all of the branches of a remote repository?

Gift is a node.js library that implements grit like functionality. To view remote branches, ordinarly I would do git branch -r, but I don't see any such functionality in the gift package.

Is it possible, using gift, to view all of the remote branches of a git repository and pull them down?

Not currently (November 2013): it is still an active project, and it doesn't include any:

• git branch -r, or
• git ls-remote

That leaves you with the option to implement it (a bit like git remote was implemented), and propose a pull request.