fetch in git doesn t get all branches

Question

I have cloned a repository  after which somebody else has created a new branch  which I d like to start working on   I read the manual  and it seems dead straight easy   Strangely it s not working  and all the posts I ve found suggest I m doing the right thing   So I ll subject myself to the lambasting  because there must be something obviously wrong with this   The correct action seems to be   git fetch git branch -a   master   remotes origin HEAD -- gt  origin master   remotes origin master git checkout -b dev-gml origin dev-gml   At this point there is a problem  for some reason after git fetch I can t see the dev-gml remote branch   Why not   If I clone the repository freshly  it s there  so certainly the remote branch exists     mkdir    gitest   cd    gitest   git clone https   github com example proj git Cloning into proj    remote  Counting objects  1155  done  remote  Compressing objects  100   383 383   done  remote  Total 1155  delta 741   reused 1155  delta 741  Receiving objects  100   1155 1155   477 22 KiB   877 KiB s  done  Resolving deltas  100   741 741   done    cd projdir   git branch -a   master   remotes origin HEAD - gt  origin master   remotes origin dev-gml   remotes origin master   I ve tried git update  git pull  git fetch --all  git pretty-please in all possible permutations

User · Accepted Answer

The problem can be seen when checking the remote.origin.fetch setting
(The lines starting with $ are bash prompts with the commands I typed. The other lines are the resulting output)

$ git config --get remote.origin.fetch
+refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

As you can see, in my case, the remote was set to fetch the master branch specifically and only. I fixed it as per below, including the second command to check the results.

$ git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"
$ git config --get remote.origin.fetch
+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

The wildcard * of course means everything under that path.

Unfortunately I saw this comment after I had already dug through and found the answer by trial and error.

User · Answer

Had the same problem today setting up my repo from scratch  I tried everything  nothing worked except removing the origin and re-adding it back again   git remote rm origin git remote add origin git github com web3coach the-blockchain-bar-newsletter-edition git  git fetch --all    Ta daaa all branches fetched

User · Answer

We had the same problem and you have to use   git fetch  git push origin branch name  git branch -r   Hope this help someone facing the same problem

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I had to go into my GitExtensions Remote Repositories as nothing here seemed to be working  There I saw that 2 branches had no remote repository configured  after adjusting it looks as follows  Notice branch noExternal3 still shows as not having a remote repository  Not sure what combo of bash commands would have found or adjusted that

User · Answer

write it from the terminal   git fetch --prune    it works fine

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Remote update  You need to run  git remote update   or  git remote update  lt remote gt     Then you can run git branch -r to list the remote branches   Checkout a new branch  To track a  new  remote branch as a local branch   git checkout -b  lt local branch gt   lt remote gt   lt remote branch gt    or  sometimes it doesn t work without the extra remotes     git checkout -b  lt local branch gt  remotes  lt remote gt   lt remote branch gt    Helpful git cheatsheets   Git Cheat Sheet  My personal favorite  Some notes on git Git Cheat Sheet  pdf

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I had this issue today on a repo    It wasn t the  refs heads   refs remotes origin   issue as per top solution   Symptom was simply that git fetch origin or git fetch just didn t appear to do anything  although there were remote branches to fetch   After trying lots of things  I removed the origin remote  and recreated it  That seems to have fixed it  Don t know why   remove with  git remote rm origin  and recreate with  git remote add origin  lt git uri gt

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I had a similar problem  however in my case I could pull push to the remote branch but git status didn t show the local branch state w r t the remote ones   Also  in my case git config --get remote origin fetch didn t return anything  The problem is that there was a typo in the  git config file in the fetch line of the respective remote block  Probably something I added by mistake previously  sometimes I directly look at this file  or even edit it   So  check if your remote entry in the  git config file is correct  e g     remote  origin       url   https    server   user or organization   repo  git     fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin

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This could be due to a face palm moment  if you switch between several clones it is easy to find yourself in the wrong source tree trying to pull a non-existent branch  It is easier when the clones have similar names  or the repos are distinct clones for the same project from each of multiple contributors   A new git clone would obviously seem to solve that  problem  when the real problem is losing focus or working context or both

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To make it more specific Create a tracking branch  which means you are now tracking a remote branch   git branch --track branch remote-branch git branch --track exp remotes origin experimental   After which you can    git branch     to see the remote tracking branch  exp  created     Then to work on that branch do    git checkout branchname git checkout exp   After you have made changes to the branch  You can git fetch and git merge with your remote tracking branch to merge your changes and push to the remote branch as below   git fetch origin git merge origin experimental   git push origin experimental   Hope it helps and gives you an idea  how this works

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