How do I pull all of the remote branches to my own repository?
If I type:
git branch -a
I get a long list of branches, but if I type:
git branch
I see only two of them.
How do I pull all branches into my local list?
I know I can do:
git checkout --track origin/branch-name
but that pulls and checks out only one branch at a time. Is there a way to get it all done at once without that whole tedious work of running git checkout --track origin/branch-name over and over and over again?
PS: I tried the following commands, but none of them made remote branches appear in my git branch list:
git fetch --all
git remote update
git pull --all
The command I usually use to make all visible upstream branches, and tracking them is detailed in "Track all remote git branches as local branches":
remote=origin ; for brname in `git branch -r | grep $remote | grep -v master | grep -v HEAD | awk '{gsub(/[^\/]+\//,"",$1); print $1}'`; do git branch --set-upstream-to $remote/$brname $brname ; done
Or:
remote=origin ; for brname in `git branch -r | grep $remote | grep -v master | grep -v HEAD | awk '{gsub(/[^\/]+\//,"",$1); print $1}'`; do git branch --track $brname $remote/$brname ; done
For more readability:
remote=origin ; // put here the name of the remote you want
for brname in `
git branch -r | grep $remote | grep -v master | grep -v HEAD
| awk '{gsub(/[^\/]+\//,"",$1); print $1}'
`; do
git branch --set-upstream-to $remote/$brname $brname;
# or
git branch --track $brname $remote/$brname ;
done
The second one is for creating new local branches tracking remote branches.