Re: How to fetch all remote branches from remote?

From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date: Aug 4, 2009, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <eaa105840908031717x43803dbbqbca126a9bc11f887@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2729632a0908031520n71514fffne0667c6b229f836f@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM, <skillzero@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to fetch all the remote branches of a remote?

git config --add remote.$remote.fetch +refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*; git fetch

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> I have
> one computer that cloned a repository from a server and I want clone
> that computer's repository to another computer, but it only brings
> over the local branches from the clone. I'd like to also get all the
> remote branches so it's the same as if I had cloned directly from the
> server. Just as if I had cp -R'd the .git folder (except with the
> remote tracking info I get when I clone). The source computer's
> repository is using git-svn so I'm trying to make a copy of that
> repository in a way that I can just push and pull changes to the
> intermediate git svn repository then later do the final git svn
> dcommit.

The above is what I use to set up my working copies from a cron-enabled git-svn mirror.

Also,  if you're pushing instead of dcommitting from each clone, you
may wish to read  this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111356/focus=112156
- your setup probably isn't that complex, but you might want to be
aware of some of the issues you might face in the "forced rebase"
environment of svn.

Peter Harris