# clone 4 messages from 2009-07-20 to 2009-07-21. Participants: Roald de Vries, Jeff King, Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/20167 ## Roald de Vries, 2009-07-20 14:33 Subject: clone Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/D229D90E-0294-475D-B7AC-6C7B23CC169A%40roalddevries.nl ``` Dear all, If I clone a repository with multiple branches to 'newdir', and then type 'git branch' in 'newdir', I see only 1 branch. 'git branch -r' gives me all branches. Is that correct behaviour? If so, why? And mainly: can I configure git to clone all original branches to non- remote branches? Kind regards, Roald ``` ## Jeff King, 2009-07-20 15:24 Subject: Re: clone Message-ID: <20090720152407.GC5347@coredump.intra.peff.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090720152407.GC5347%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 04:33:51PM +0200, Roald de Vries wrote: > If I clone a repository with multiple branches to 'newdir', and then > type 'git branch' in 'newdir', I see only 1 branch. 'git branch -r' > gives me all branches. Is that correct behaviour? If so, why? And > mainly: can I configure git to clone all original branches to non- > remote branches? Yes, it's correct. You really only need local branches of things you are going to work on. And then that happens, you generally would just "git checkout -b foo origin/foo" to make your own local "foo" branch that you will be working on (or if you are using topic branches, something more like "git checkout -b mytopic origin/master"). If you are just inspecting branches (e.g., checking them out to try building, doing diffs against them, using them as reference points for logging, etc), then the remote versions are fine. -Peff ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2009-07-21 08:05 Subject: Re: clone Message-ID: <4A6576B3.7000503@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A6576B3.7000503%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: ``` Roald de Vries venit, vidit, dixit 20.07.2009 16:33: > Dear all, > > If I clone a repository with multiple branches to 'newdir', and then > type 'git branch' in 'newdir', I see only 1 branch. 'git branch -r' > gives me all branches. Is that correct behaviour? If so, why? And > mainly: can I configure git to clone all original branches to non- > remote branches? > > Kind regards, Roald A for the 2nd part (1st one answered by Jeff), you can "git clone --mirror". But me suspects that you actually want (s)cp -rp, do you? Michael ``` ## Roald de Vries, 2009-07-21 09:56 Subject: Re: clone Message-ID: <0884A878-A57C-4089-AE32-A3D1ACC32FED@roalddevries.nl> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/0884A878-A57C-4089-AE32-A3D1ACC32FED%40roalddevries.nl In-Reply-To: <4A6576B3.7000503@drmicha.warpmail.net> ``` Hi Michael, I actually meant cloning all branches to both remote and non-remote (but remote-tracking) branches. But still, the --mirrorring is usefull, thx. Kind regards, Roald On Jul 21, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote: > Roald de Vries venit, vidit, dixit 20.07.2009 16:33: >> Dear all, >> >> If I clone a repository with multiple branches to 'newdir', and then >> type 'git branch' in 'newdir', I see only 1 branch. 'git branch -r' >> gives me all branches. Is that correct behaviour? If so, why? And >> mainly: can I configure git to clone all original branches to non- >> remote branches? >> >> Kind regards, Roald > > A for the 2nd part (1st one answered by Jeff), you can "git clone -- > mirror". > > But me suspects that you actually want (s)cp -rp, do you? > > Michael > ```