You can also list the existing git refs from a repository using [`list_repo_refs`]:  
```py
>>> from huggingface_hub import list_repo_refs
>>> list_repo_refs("bigcode/the-stack", repo_type="dataset")
GitRefs(
branches=[
GitRefInfo(name='main', ref='refs/heads/main', target_commit='18edc1591d9ce72aa82f56c4431b3c969b210ae3'),
GitRefInfo(name='v1.1.a1', ref='refs/heads/v1.1.a1', target_commit='f9826b862d1567f3822d3d25649b0d6d22ace714')
],
converts=[],
tags=[
GitRefInfo(name='v1.0', ref='refs/tags/v1.0', target_commit='c37a8cd1e382064d8aced5e05543c5f7753834da')
]
)
```