Track all remote git branches as local branches

Question

Tracking a single remote branch as a local branch is straightforward enough.

$ git checkout --track -b ${branch_name} origin/${branch_name}

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Answer 1

In case you already have some branches checked out and want to

• check out all remaining branches from the remote
• make sure all local branches track the remote branches

you can use the following bash- and zsh-compatible script:

git branch -r | while read b; do if git branch | grep -q " ${b##*/}$"; then git branch --set-upstream ${b##*/} $b; else git branch --track ${b##*/} $b; fi; done

Answer 2

The answer given by Otto is good, but all the created branches will have "origin/" as the start of the name. If you just want the last part (after the last /) to be your resulting branch names, use this:

for remote in `git branch -r | grep -v /HEAD`; do git checkout --track $remote ; done

It also has the benefit of not giving you any warnings about ambiguous refs.

Answer 3

If you want to use powershell and your remote is called origin. Then this works.

git fetch    
git branch -r  | %{$_ -replace "  origin/"} | %{git branch --track $_ "origin/$_"}

Answer 4

Here is my solution of BASH command referring by @tjmcewan:

for remote in `git branch -r | grep -v /HEAD `; do git branch --track ${remote/"origin/"/""}; done

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My goal is to solve the problem that all the created branches will have "origin/" as the start of the name, because I tested that $remote variables are still include "origin/":

for remote in `git branch -r | grep -v /HEAD`; do echo $remote ; done

Answer 5

for i in `git branch -a | grep remote`; do git branch --track ${i#remotes/origin/} $i; done

Answer 6

without any scripting (in an empty directory):

$ git clone --bare repo_url .git
$ git config core.bare false
$ git checkout

after that, all remote branches will be seen as local.

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original (in russian).