git fetch all branches- How to fetch all Git branches?

Question

I cloned a Git repository, which contains about five branches. However, when I do git branch I only see one of them: $ git branch * master I know that I can do git branch -a to see all the branches, but how would I pull all the branches locally so when I do git branch, it shows the following? $ git branch * master * staging * etc... Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

git fetch --all and git pull -all will only track the remote branches and track local branches that track remote branches respectively. But it is not sufficient to track all remote branches For tracking all remote branches run this command for remote in `git branch -r`; do git branch --track ${remote#origin/} $remote; done Run this command only if there are remote branches on the server which are untracked by your local branches. Then after this command run git fetch --all git pull --all Thus, you can fetch all git branches. On a side note: some will suggest you with git branch -r | grep -v '\->' | while read remote; do git branch --track "${remote#origin/}" "$remote"; done But this will create a local branch named origin/branchname which will give you "refname 'origin/branchname' is ambiguous whenever you referred to it. For more information regarding Git commands please go through the following tutorial link: