Git Cannot see new remote branch

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A colleague pushed a new remote branch to origin dev homepage and I cannot see it when I run     git branch -r   I still see preexisting remote branches    I assume this is because my local remote refs are not up-to-date hence when I ran a git pull nothing happened since git pull only pulls on the current working branch correct  Unlike git push which pushes all branches that have changes to the corresponding remote branch

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You can checkout remote branch  n git fetch  amp  amp  git checkout remotebranch

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Check whether  git config contains   remote  origin       url           fetch    refs heads master refs remotes origin master   If so  change it to say   remote  origin       url           fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin     Then you should be able to use it     git fetch remote  Counting objects      remote  Compressing objects     Unpacking objects      remote      From         new branch             branchname - gt  origin branchname   git checkout branchname Branch branchname set up to track remote branch branchname from origin  Switched to a new branch  branchname

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It sounds trivial  but my issue was that I wasn t in the right project  Make sure you are in the project you expect to be in  otherwise  you won t be able to pull down the correct branches

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Doing a git remote update will also update the list of branches available from the remote repository   If you are using TortoiseGit  as of version 1 8 3 0  you can do  Git -  Sync  and there will be a  Remote Update  button in the lower left of the window that appears   Click that   Then you should be able to do  Git -  Switch Checkout  and have the new remote branch appear in the dropdown of branches you can select

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The simplest answer is   git fetch origin  lt branch name gt

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I used brute force and removed the remote and then added it  git remote rm  lt remote gt  git remote add  lt url or ssh gt

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What ended up finally working for me was to add the remote repository name to the git fetch command  like this   git fetch core   Now you can see all of them like this   git branch --all

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Let s say we are searching for release 1 0 5  When git fetch -all is not working and that you cannot see the remote branch and git branch -r not show this specific branch   1  Print all refs from remote  branches  tags         git ls-remote origin Should show you remote branch you are searching for   e51c80fc0e03abeb2379327d85ceca3ca7bc3ee5        refs heads fix PROJECT-352 179b545ac9dab49f85cecb5aca0d85cec8fb152d        refs heads fix PROJECT-5 e850a29846ee1ecc9561f7717205c5f2d78a992b        refs heads master ab4539faa42777bf98fb8785cec654f46f858d2a        refs heads release 1 0 5 dee135fb65685cec287c99b9d195d92441a60c2d        refs heads release 1 0 4 36e385cec9b639560d1d8b093034ed16a402c855        refs heads release 1 0 d80c1a52012985cec2f191a660341d8b7dd91deb        refs tags v1 0   The new branch  release 1 0 5  appears in the output   2  Force fetching a remote branch   git fetch origin  lt name branch gt   lt name branch gt     git fetch origin release 1 0 5 release 1 0 5  remote  Enumerating objects  385  done  remote  Counting objects  100   313 313   done  remote  Compressing objects  100   160 160   done   Receiving objects  100   231 231   21 02 KiB   1 05 MiB s  done  Resolving deltas  100   98 98   completed with 42 local objects  From http   git repo 8080 projects projectX     new branch         release 1 0 5 - gt  release 1 0 5   Now you have also the refs locally  you checkout  or whatever  this branch   Job done

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First  double check that the branch has been actually pushed remotely  by using the command git ls-remote origin  If the new branch appears in the output  try and give the command git fetch  it should download the branch references from the remote repository   If your remote branch still does not appear  double check  in the ls-remote output  what is the branch name on the remote and  specifically  if it begins with refs heads   This is because  by default  the value of remote  lt name gt  fetch is    refs heads   refs remotes origin     so that only the remote references whose name starts with refs heads  will be mapped locally as remote-tracking references under refs remotes origin   i e   they will become remote-tracking branches

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