Set up git to pull and push all branches

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I d like to push and pull all the branches by default  including the newly created ones   Is there a setting that I can define for it   Otherwise  when I add a new branch  locally and I want to pull it from the server  what is the simplest way to do it   I created a new branch with the same name and tried to pull but it doesn t work  Asks me for all the remote config of the branch  How do I set it

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I had used below commands to migrate all branches to the new repository.

~$ git clone --mirror <url_of_old_repo>
~$ cd <name_of_old_repo>
~$ git remote add new-origin <url_of_new_repo>
~$ git push new-origin master
~$ git push new-origin --mirror

NOTE: I had to use second last (i.e. push master first) command while cloning a repo from Atlassian Stash to AWS CodeCommit (blank repo). I am not sure the reason, but after pushing (git push new-origin --mirror) default branch was referring to some other branch than master.

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The full procedure that worked for me to transfer ALL branches and tags is  combining the answers of  vikas027 and  kumarahul     git clone  lt url of old repo gt     cd  lt name of old repo gt     git remote add new-origin  lt url of new repo gt     git push new-origin --mirror    git push new-origin refs remotes origin   refs heads      git push new-origin --delete HEAD  The last step is because a branch named HEAD appears in the new remote due to the wildcard

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The simplest way is to do   git push --all origin   This will push tags and branches

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If you are moving branches to a new repo from an old one and do NOT have all the old repo branches local  you will need to track them first   for remote in  git branch -r   grep -v   - gt     do git branch --track  remote  done   Then add your new remote repo   git remote add bb  lt path-to-new-repo gt    Then you can push all using this command   git push -u bb --all   Or you can configure the repo using the git config commands noted in the other responses here if you are not doing this one time or are only looking to move local branches   The important point  the other responses only push all LOCAL branches    If the branches only exist on an alternate REMOTE repository they will not move without tracking them first   The for loop presented here will help with that

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With modern git you always fetch all branches  as remote-tracking branches into refs remotes origin   namespace  visible with git branch -r or git remote show origin      By default  see documentation of push default config variable  you push matching branches  which means that first you have to do git push origin branch for git to push it always on git push   If you want to always push all branches  you can set up push refspec   Assuming that the remote is named origin you can either use git config     git config --add remote origin push   refs heads   refs heads      git config --add remote origin push   refs tags   refs tags      or directly edit  git config file to have something like the following     remote  origin           url   user example com  srv git repo git         fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin           fetch    refs tags   refs tags           push     refs heads   refs heads           push     refs tags   refs tags

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To see all the branches with out using git branch -a you should execute   for remote in  git branch -r   do git branch --track  remote  done git fetch --all git pull --all   Now you can see all the branches   git branch   To push all the branches try   git push --all

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If you are moving all branches to a new repo from an old one then in your local repo you need to set up tracking of each branch to existing origin branches  before pushing to the new repo  otherwise all your origin branches won   t appear in the new origin  Do this manually by tracking or checking out each branch  or use the one liner   for remote in  git branch -r   grep -v   - gt     grep -v master   do git branch --track  echo  remote sed  s origin       echo  remote   done   This one line command is based on versions of it in other answers on this page  but is arguably better because    it correctly sets up the branch tracking  unlike some older variants of this command on this page which only supply one parameter to --track and thus each branch ends up tracking master - not good names the local branches without the prefix    origin     which I personally don   t want - and is consistent with what happens when you checkout a branch normally   skips tracking master since that is already happening  doesn   t actually checkout anything thus is fast  avoids stumbling over the -  in the output of git branch -r   Next  if you are switching origins  replace the link to the old origin and point to a new remote   Ensure you create the new remote first  using bitbucket github GUI  but don   t add any files to it or there will be a merge problem  E g   git remote set-url origin git bitbucket org YOUR SOMEREPO git   Now push   Note the second command is needed to push the tags as well   git push -u --all origin git push --tags origin

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If you are pushing from one remote origin to another  you can use this  git push newremote refs remotes oldremote   refs heads    This worked for me  Reffer to this  https   www metaltoad com blog git-push-all-branches-new-remote

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Solution without hardcoding origin in config  Use the following in your global gitconfig   remote      push    refs heads       push    refs tags     This pushes all branches and all tags  Why should you NOT hardcode origin in config   If you hardcode    You ll end up with origin as a remote in all repos  So you ll not be able to add origin  but you need to use set-url   If a tool creates a remote with a different name push all config will not apply  Then you ll have to rename the remote  but rename will not work because origin already exists  from point 1  remember      Fetching is taken care of already by modern git  As per Jakub Narebski s answer      With modern git you always fetch all branches  as remote-tracking branches into refs remotes origin   namespace

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Including the   in the push spec is probably a bad idea  as it means that git will happily do a non-fast-forward push even without -f  and if the remote server is set up to accept those  you can lose history     Try just this     git config --add remote origin push  refs heads   refs heads      git config --add remote origin push  refs tags   refs tags      git config --add remote origin fetch  refs heads   refs remotes origin      git config --add remote origin fetch  refs tags   refs tags

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