Git Hub Clone All Branches At Once

Question

I'm trying to clone an entire repository onto my machine using linux. I used

git clone <url>    

I then went into the folder where it was downloaded and typed

git branch  

in the terminal. It's only showing me master and not other branches which were in the remote repository. How do I clone all branches?

I know that for each branch in the remote I can separately use

git checkout -b <name of local branch> origin/<name of remote branch> 

but is there any way other than that?

Answer 1

(1) Inside git local repostitory, create a new sh file

touch getAllBranches.sh vi getAllBranches.sh 

(2) Insert the below content to getAllBranches.sh file:

for branch in `git branch -a | grep remotes | grep -v HEAD | grep -v master `; do    git branch --track ${branch#remotes/origin/} $branch done 

(3) Get all branches:

chmod +x getAllBranches.sh     sh getAllBranches.sh 

(4) Check result at local repository:

git branch 

For example, I use repository: https://github.com/donhuvy/spring-boot

As you can see, I have fetched all branches to local machine:

Answer 2

This isn't too much complicated, very simple and straight forward steps are as follows:

After cloning the repo, run $ cd myproject

git branch -a This will show you all the remote branches.

$ git branch -a * master   remotes/origin/HEAD   remotes/origin/master   remotes/origin/v1.0-stable   remotes/origin/experimental 

If you want to work on remote branch, you'll need to create a local tracking branch:

$ git checkout -b experimental origin/experimental 

Verify whether you are in the desired branch by the following command;

$ git branch 

The output will like this;

*experimental master some branch2 some branch3  

Notice the * sign that denotes the current branch.