Remote branch is not showing up in git branch -r

Question

I have been pushing to a remote Bitbucket repository and recently a colleague has pushed a new branch he created to the same repository   I m trying to fetch the changes he uploaded      git branch -a    master  localbranch1  localbranch2  remotes origin master        git branch -r   origin master   In the web UI for Bitbucket I can see the branch he has made  How can I do this   Next try     git fetch bitbucket Password for  https   xxxxx bitbucket org   From https   bitbucket org user repo    branch            HEAD       - gt  FETCH HEAD   If the branch he created is called new branch b should I be expecting to see the following     git branch -r origin master origin new branch b   Third try     git remote update Fetching bitbucket Password for  https   xxxxx bitbucket org   From https   bitbucket org user repo    branch            HEAD       - gt  FETCH HEAD    git branch -r   origin master   Fourth try    remote  bitbucket   url   https   user bitbucket org user repo git   I called the remote bitbucket rather than origin  at least that s what I recall  I set it up a while ago   Fifth try   I updated the Bitbucket remote configuration as per kan s answer        git config -e    remote  bitbucket       url   https   user bitbucket org user repo git     fetch    refs heads   refs remotes bitbucket     For most people it will be called origin    remote  origin       url   https   user bitbucket org user repo git     fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin     Afterwards     git remote update  Fetching bitbucket Password for  https   user bitbucket org   remote  Counting objects  48  done  remote  Compressing objects  100   32 32   done  remote  Total 35  delta 21   reused 0  delta 0  Unpacking objects  100   35 35   done  From https   bitbucket org user repo     new branch       branch name1 - gt  origin branch name1     new branch       branch name2    - gt  origin branch name2        and so on   I think git fetch origin would also work for git remote update

User · Accepted Answer

The remote section also specifies fetch rules  You could add something like this into it to fetch all branches from the remote   fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin      Or replace origin with bitbucket    Please read about it here  10 5 Git Internals - The Refspec

User · Answer

Update your remote if you still haven t done so     git remote update   git branch -r

User · Answer

I had the same issue  It seems the easiest solution is to just remove the remote  readd it  and fetch

User · Answer

Unfortunately  git branch -a and git branch -r do not show you all remote branches  if you haven t executed a  git fetch    git remote show origin works consistently all the time  Also git show-ref shows all references in the Git repository  However  it works just like the git branch command

User · Answer

If you clone with the --depth parameter  it sets  git config not to fetch all branches  but only master   You can simply omit the parameter or update the configuration file from  fetch    refs heads master refs remotes origin master   to  fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin

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