Re: Feature Proposal: Track all branches from a given remote

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Oct 26, 2014, 00:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20141026001610.GK312818@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAEFop41rvXCAawW7zWGzT251zWyyoMhQbg=5vtHzQrbk4W6D_Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 04:34:30PM -0700, Scott Johnson wrote:

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> Hello git experts:
> 
> Recently, I've encountered the problem where I would like to set my
> local repository copy to track all branches on a given remote. There
> does not appear to be a switch for this in the git-branch command
> currently, however, I will admit that my somewhat limited
> understanding of the git-branch manpage might be causing me simply not
> to see it.

I don't know about a command line option for this, but I think there's a way to achieve what you're looking for.

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> So, for example, if I were to run:
> 
> git-branch --track-remote origin
> 
> and I had two branches on origin, master and maint, respectively,
> after the command finishes, my local repo would now have two branches,
> master (set up to track origin/master), and maint (setup to track
> origin/maint).

You could do something like this in .git/config:

[remote "origin"]
  fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

You won't be able to fetch if you would overwrite the current branch, though.

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