# how to clone all branches include remote branches

2 messages from 2009-02-10 to 2009-02-10. Participants: gnu kevin, Johannes Gilger.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17705

## gnu kevin, 2009-02-10 17:49

Subject: how to clone all branches include remote branches
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hi,

I'd like to know how to get all remote(grandparent) branches by clone
a remote repo . for example:
remote repo ABC contains below branches:
master
stable/main
dev/main

while master is the local branch in remote repo and stable/main &
dev/main is two remote branches of that remote repo, when I clone from
ABC repo, I can only get a copy of ABC's local branch master, how can
I get those two remote(grandparent) branches also copied?

BRs,
Kevin

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## Johannes Gilger, 2009-02-10 18:05

Subject: Re: how to clone all branches include remote branches
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In-Reply-To: <95463c700902100949w23a95536re9a65a2e5c3c0b5d@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2009-02-10, gnu kevin <kevin.gnu.zhang@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to know how to get all remote(grandparent) branches by clone
> a remote repo . for example:
> remote repo ABC contains below branches:
> master
> stable/main
> dev/main

You could (if your .git/config) already contains the remote simply add a 
line:
fetch = +refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/<remote-name>/remotes/*

The double remotes is used so that no remote-remote-branch can overwrite 
your tracking branch with the same name.

Hope that helped,
Jojo

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