How do fetch remote branch after I cloned repo with git clone --depth 1

Question

I\'ve repo with long history so I cloned using

git clone  --depth 1

Now I\'m in the master branch.

How do I fetc

Answer 1

You could try forcing it by specifying the fetch depth:

git fetch --depth=999999

depth is the number of commits. Note that when you did a clone, clone actually does a fetch and the depth is the same depth specified in your fetch.

Make that number bigger if needed!

EDIT

Also you can/probably-should use deepen - same syntax, but it effectively fetches from where your last specified depth left off.. so its a bit more efficient:

git fetch --deepen=999999

It might depend on your git version though for that last one....

EDIT 2

Just saw this while I was reviewing the git docs....

git fetch --unshallow

This would be the best way (not sure which version it is implemented in and I have not tried it.... but looks like the thing to use).