When does Git refresh the list of remote branches

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Using git branch --all shows all remote and local branches  When does Git refresh this list   On pull push  And how do I refresh it using Git Bash

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To update the local list of remote branches   git remote update origin --prune   To show all local and remote branches that  local  Git knows about  git branch -a

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I believe that if you run git branch --all from Bash that the list of remote and local branches you see will reflect what your local Git  knows  about at the time you run the command   Because your Git is always up to date with regard to the local branches in your system  the list of local branches will always be accurate   However  for remote branches this need not be the case   Your local Git only knows about remote branches which it has seen in the last fetch  or pull    So it is possible that you might run git branch --all and not see a new remote branch which appeared after the last time you fetched or pulled   To ensure that your local and remote branch list be up to date you can do a git fetch before running git branch --all   For further information  the  remote  branches which appear when you run git branch --all are not really remote at all  they are actually local   For example  suppose there be a branch on the remote called feature which you have pulled at least once into your local Git   You will see origin feature listed as a branch when you run git branch --all   But this branch is actually a local Git branch   When you do git fetch origin  this tracking branch gets updated with any new changes from the remote   This is why your local state can get stale  because there may be new remote branches  or your tracking branches can become stale

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Use git fetch to fetch all latest created branches

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If you are using Eclipse     Open  Git Repositories  Find your Repository  Open up  Branches  then  Remote Tracking       They should all be in there  Right click and  checkout

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The OP did not ask for cleanup for all remotes  rather for all branches of default remote    So git fetch --prune is what should be used    Setting git config remote origin prune true makes --prune automatic  In that case just git fetch will also prune stale remote branches from the local copy  See also Automatic prune with Git fetch or pull   Note that this does not clean local branches that are no longer tracking a remote branch  See How to prune local tracking branches that do not exist on remote anymore for that

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