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---
topic: branches
source_keys:
- gitea-mcp-repo
- gitea-mcp-slim-go
---
# Branch operations
Call signatures below were verified live against the deployed `gitea-mcp` server via `ToolSearch`
at authoring time, not copied from research docs — this is deliberate: research docs are generated
from source code at a point in time and can drift from the server actually deployed. Re-verify
against the live schema if these tools appear to behave differently than documented here.
## `list_branches`
**Parameters:**
- `owner` (string, required)
- `repo` (string, required)
- `page` (number, optional, default: `1`)
- `per_page` (number, optional, default: `30`)
**Call:**
```
list_branches owner: <owner> repo: <repo>
```
**Response:** one object per branch: `name`, `protected` (bool), `commit_sha` (present when the
underlying commit data is available).
Paginate if you need the full list (see Gotchas in SKILL.md) — iterate `page` until the returned
count is less than `per_page`.
## `create_branch`
**Parameters:**
- `owner` (string, required)
- `repo` (string, required)
- `branch` (string, required) — new branch name
- `old_branch` (string, optional) — source branch; if omitted, defaults to the repo's default
branch server-side (not necessarily your current local checkout)
**Call:**
```
create_branch owner: <owner> repo: <repo> branch: <new-name> old_branch: <source-branch>
```
Default dispatch: if the user gives a base ("branch off of X", "from X"), pass it as `old_branch`.
If they don't specify a base and you're mid-task on a local branch, pass your current branch
(`git branch --show-current`) as `old_branch` so the new branch forks from where you're actually
working, rather than silently falling back to the repo default. If neither applies (e.g. a fresh
top-level request with no working branch context), omit `old_branch` and let it default server-side.
A branch name collision returns `409 Conflict`.
## `delete_branch`
**Parameters:**
- `owner` (string, required)
- `repo` (string, required)
- `branch` (string, required)
**Call:**
```
delete_branch owner: <owner> repo: <repo> branch: <name>
```
Before calling this, see the `delete_branch` Gotcha in SKILL.md. If the target branch's name isn't
obviously a scratch/feature branch, call `list_branches` first and check `protected` on the
matching entry — name-matching `main`/`master` alone isn't authoritative, since a repo can protect
a differently-named default branch. Confirm explicitly with the user before deleting anything
protected, every time, regardless of how the request is phrased.
## Token scope
All three — `list_branches`, `create_branch`, `delete_branch` — require `write:repository`. Gitea
gates reads behind write scope for repo-scoped operations, so `list_branches` needs the same scope
as the write operations, not `write:issue` alone. An earlier version of this doc claimed
`write:issue` alone was sufficient for `list_branches`, based on empirical testing under a token
that held both `write:issue` and `write:repository` simultaneously — that test didn't isolate the
variable, so it couldn't actually establish `write:issue` alone as sufficient.