How to fetch all Git branches

Question

I cloned a Git repository, which contains about five branches. However, when I do git branch I only see one of them:

$ git branch
* master


        

Answer 1

git remote add origin https://yourBitbucketLink

git fetch origin

git checkout -b yourNewLocalBranchName origin/requiredRemoteBranch (use tab :D)

Now locally your yourNewLocalBranchName is your requiredRemoteBranch.

Answer 2

I believe you have cloned the repository by:

git clone https://github.com/pathOfrepository

Now go to that folder using cd:

cd pathOfrepository

If you type git status you can see all:

   On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean

To see all hidden branch types:

 git branch -a

It will list all the remote branchs.

Now if you want to checkout on any particular branch just type:

git checkout -b localBranchName origin/RemteBranchName

Answer 3

Have tried many ways, only this one is simple and works for me.

for branch in $(git ls-remote -h git@<your_repository>.git | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's:refs/heads/::')
do
  git checkout "$branch"
  git pull
done

Answer 4

If you do:

git fetch origin

then they will be all there locally. If you then perform:

git branch -a

you'll see them listed as remotes/origin/branch-name. Since they are there locally you can do whatever you please with them. For example:

git diff origin/branch-name 

or

git merge origin/branch-name

or

git checkout -b some-branch origin/branch-name

Answer 5

After you clone the master repository, you just can execute

git fetch && git checkout <branchname>

Answer 6

Make sure all the remote branches are fetchable in .git/config file.

In this example, only the origin/production branch is fetchable, even if you try to do git fetch --all nothing will happen but fetching the production branch:

[origin]
fetch = +refs/heads/production:refs/remotes/origin/production

This line should be replaced by:

[origin]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

Then run git fetch etc...