http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67699/clone-all-remote-branches-with-git
First, clone a remote Git repository and cd into it:
$ git clone git://example.com/myproject $ cd myproject Next, look at the local branches in your repository:
$ git branch
- master But there are other branches hiding in your repository! You can see these using the -a flag:
$ git branch -a
- master remotes/origin/HEAD remotes/origin/master remotes/origin/v1.0-stable remotes/origin/experimental If you just want to take a quick peek at an upstream branch, you can check it out directly:
$ git checkout origin/experimental But if you want to work on that branch, you'll need to create a local tracking branch:
$ git checkout -b experimental origin/experimental and you will see
Branch experimental set up to track remote branch experimental from origin. Switched to a new branch 'experimental'
That last line throw some people "New branch" - huh? What it really means is a new local branch that gets the branch from the index and creates it locally for you. The previous line is actually more informative as it tells you that the branch is being set up to track the remote branch, which usually means the origin/branch_name branch
Now, if you look at your local branches, this is what you'll see:
$ git branch
- experimental master
At this point, things are getting pretty crazy, so run gitk to see what's going on:
$ gitk --all &
Bash script
#!/bin/bash
for branch in git branch -a | grep remotes | grep -v HEAD | grep -v master; do
git branch --track ${branch##*/} $branch
done
It will create tracking branches for all remote branches, except master (which you probably got from the original clone command). I think you might still need to do a
git fetch --all git pull --all