Clone all branches in a remote Git repository

One of the remote git repository has master, development & some other branches. I’ve cloned, pulled, and fetched, but I remain unable to get anything other than the master branch. I need to get all branches from remote.

Here is the solution.

Bash script

#!/bin/bash
for branch in $(git branch --all | grep '^\s*remotes' | egrep --invert-match '(:?HEAD|master)$'); do
    git branch --track "${branch##*/}" "$branch"
done

One line command

git branch -a | grep -v HEAD | perl -ne 'chomp($_); s|^\*?\s*||; if (m|(.+)/(.+)| && not $d{$2}) {print qq(git branch --track $2 $1/$2\n)} else {$d{$_}=1}' | csh -xfs

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This article was published on October 2, 2021

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