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SangminKim
SangminKim

Reputation: 9136

How to fetch all remote branch, "git fetch --all" doesn't work

I have looked through other questions on similar question.

But they seem to say the answer is git fetch --all.

But in my case, it doesn't work.

This is what I have done for it.

> git branch
* master

> git branch -r
origin/master
origin/A

> git fetch --all
> git branch 
* master        #still not updated

> git fetch origin/A
fatal: 'origin/A' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

> git fetch remotes/origin/A
fatal: 'origin/A' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

And I also tried git pull --all also but the result is the same.

-------------------Edit-------------------

> git pull --all
Already up-to-date.

> git branch 
* master              # I think it should show branch A also

> git remote show origin
 HEAD branch: master
 Remote branches:
   A      tracked
   master tracked

-------------------Edit-------------------

> git pull origin A
 * branch            A       -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.

> git branch 
* master                   # I think it should show barnch A also

Upvotes: 22

Views: 49321

Answers (3)

noahnu
noahnu

Reputation: 3574

git branch only displays local branches. git branch -r will display remote branches, as you've seen for yourself.

git branch
*master

git branch -r
origin/master
origin/A

git fetch --all will update the list you see when you type git branch -r but it will not create the corresponding local branches.

What you want to do is checkout the branches. This will make a local copy of the remote branch and set the upstream to the remote.

git checkout -b mylocal origin/A

git branch
master
*mylocal

git branch -r
origin/master
origin/A

mylocal in this case is origin/A. The -b parameter will create the branch if it doesn't exist. You could also just type: git checkout A will will auto-name the new branch.

Upvotes: 30

nwinkler
nwinkler

Reputation: 54457

I think what you're really looking for is the git branch -a command. It will show all local and remote branches. Here's an example:

# Only show local branches
$ git branch
* master
  develop

# Only show remote branches
$ git branch -r
  origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  origin/master
  origin/develop
  origin/foo

# Show both local and remote branches
$ git branch -a
* master
  develop
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop
  remotes/origin/foo

You will notice that all of the branches are there - the command will show both local and remote branches.

The foo branch only exits on the remote, I don't have a local foo branch. To create a local foo branch, I would use the checkout command:

# Create a local 'foo' branch from the remote one
$ git checkout foo
Branch foo set up to track remote branch foo from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'foo'

# Show both local and remote branches
$ git branch -a
* foo
  master
  develop
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/master
  remotes/origin/develop
  remotes/origin/foo

This should explain what you're seeing locally.

Upvotes: 3

Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 164

You need to create the fetched branch locally as well:

git fetch --all && git checkout A

Upvotes: 0

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