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Kate Zz
Kate Zz

Reputation: 3751

How do I update the remote branches list in Git from the server?

How can I update the remote branches list in Git?

I have pushed a branch to Git on the server. On the second local copy of the repository, I want to get that branch and do:

show branch -r

But I don't have the new branch in this list.

How can I update Git's remote branch list?

Upvotes: 27

Views: 34851

Answers (3)

Guilherme Abacherli
Guilherme Abacherli

Reputation: 335

Execute the command:

git fetch --all

So the local repository will download all the new branches/tags that is in the server.

If you want to remove from the local the ones that have been removed from the remote server, try this:

git fetch --all --prune

As seen in the git doc about the fetch command.

Upvotes: 12

Code Prank
Code Prank

Reputation: 4250

You can use the following commands to update the list of local branches from remote:

git fetch --prune

git pull --prune

Also you can set to update the local list of remote git branches automatically every time you run git pull or git fetch using below command.

git config remote.origin.prune true

Upvotes: 26

Sébastien Dawans
Sébastien Dawans

Reputation: 4626

In the second local repository:

git fetch        # Retrieves updates from remote repo
git branch -a    # View all local and remote branches

Upvotes: 13

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