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David542
David542

Reputation: 110113

Only master branch is visible after cloning a Git repo

I am working on a project and I created a repository with a master branch. Someone who is working on it added a branch named new-branch -- their code changes are in this branch.

However, when I clone the repository:

$ git clone [email protected]:me/my-repo.git

I can clone it successfully, but it only shows the master branch. I do not know how I can view/get the new-branch.

How would I pull this branch to my repository?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 23418

Answers (2)

nikhil2000
nikhil2000

Reputation: 188

In my case, i cloned the Repo correctly but i was trying to find the branches in the internal folder. so i was unable to see any.

My Project has below folder structure.

ABC/
ABC_XYZ / 
ABC_Core
ABC_Web
x
y
z
.....

so i was trying to check the branches in ABC_XYZ instead of ABC.

Upvotes: 0

Greg Hewgill
Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 992917

When you clone a repository, all remote branches are created as "remote tracking branches" in your repository. These aren't shown by default, but you can see these with:

git branch -a

If you do a git checkout new-branch, git will find the remote tracking branch of the same name, automatically create a new local branch from the same commit, and switch to the new local branch.

For future work, the git fetch command will update all the remote tracking branches with their latest commit from the remote.

Upvotes: 43

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