How do i get commit logs of a remote located branch?

Question

Without cloning the repository, Is it possible to get the following from command-line/git bash,

1. List of branches in the repository
2. git logs of specific branch

Answer 1

As far as i am aware the only way to do is to connect to server using ssh and running the git log on the server

ssh remote@host "cd repo && git log"

Fo windows u can use Putty