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brownmamba
brownmamba

Reputation: 755

Unable to see the newly created branch after cloning my own git repository on my laptop

I have setup a secure git repo setup on my desktop which I am able to access and clone from anywhere. However after cloning the repository I can only see the master branch and not the new dev branch that I have created on my desktop (which is my git server). Just to be clear the dev branch on the server does not have any data yet, but I was atleast expecting to see that it exists, after cloning that repo on my laptop.

Please help!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 416

Answers (3)

Adam Dymitruk
Adam Dymitruk

Reputation: 129536

You need to push your branch up first from the original repo:

git push origin branchname

Then fetch from the new clone:

git fetch origin #origin is optional if that's the only remote you have

Now create and checkout the branch locally:

git checkout -t origin/branchname

Upvotes: 0

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301117

After you do the clone, do:

git checkout -b dev origin/dev

This will create and switch to the dev branch.

If you are talking about having created the branch on the clone repo, do

git checkout <branch_name>

to switch to the branch.

Upvotes: 2

BenC
BenC

Reputation: 8976

You can see all the existing branches with :

git branch -a

For a basic repository (master branch only), the output is :

* master                  ---> local master branch
  remotes/origin/master   ---> remote master branch

After a simple git branch dev, the output of git branch -a should be :

  dev                     ---> local dev branch
* master                  ---> local master branch
  remotes/origin/master   ---> remote master branch

If you want to create a branch on your remote repository :

git push origin <local branch name>:<remote branch name>

Or if you want to keep the name of the local branch :

git push origin <local branch name>

And git branch -a should give :

  dev                     ---> local dev branch
* master                  ---> local master branch
  remotes/origin/dev      ---> remote dev branch
  remotes/origin/master   ---> remote master branch

Upvotes: 1

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