You can get this error in the context of, e.g. a Travis build that, by default, checks code out with git clone --depth=50 --branch=master
. To the best of my knowledge, you can control --depth
via .travis.yml
but not the --branch
. Since that results in only a single branch being tracked by the remote, you need to independently update the remote to track the desired remote's refs.
Before:
$ git branch -a
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/master
The fix:
$ git remote set-branches --add origin branch-1
$ git remote set-branches --add origin branch-2
$ git fetch
After:
$ git branch -a
* master
remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
remotes/origin/branch-1
remotes/origin/branch-2
remotes/origin/master