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Re: How to make fetch get everything?

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Jun 1, 2011, 06:59 UTC
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Am 6/1/2011 2:06, schrieb garyc618:
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> Hi List,
> 
> In one book it says that "git fetch [remote]" pulls down everything you
> don't currently have in your local repository.  However, when I look at
> FETCH_HEAD it only has the master head.  Other branches don't seem to get
> fetched.
> 
> I tried "git fetch [remote] *:*" but that gave fatal error messages.
> 
> Then I tried "git fetch [remote] "*:foo/*" which worked great - I got every
> single branch.

Assuming you have either cloned from the remote or have set it up using "git remote add origin /where/the/remote/is", you should have tried

   git fetch origin
which would give you all remote branches in [refs/]remotes/origin/*.
-- Hannes
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  1. garyc618Jun 1, 2011
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