How to fetch all remote branch, "git fetch --all" doesn't work

Question

I have looked through other questions on similar question.

But they seem to say the answer is git fetch --all.

But in my case, it doesn't work.

This is what I have done for it.

> git branch
* master

> git branch -r
origin/master
origin/A

> git fetch --all
> git branch 
* master        #still not updated

> git fetch origin/A
fatal: 'origin/A' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

> git fetch remotes/origin/A
fatal: 'origin/A' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

And I also tried git pull --all also but the result is the same.

-------------------Edit-------------------

> git pull --all
Already up-to-date.

> git branch 
* master              # I think it should show branch A also

> git remote show origin
 HEAD branch: master
 Remote branches:
   A      tracked
   master tracked

-------------------Edit-------------------

> git pull origin A
 * branch            A       -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.

> git branch 
* master                   # I think it should show barnch A also

Answer 1

git branch only displays local branches. git branch -r will display remote branches, as you've seen for yourself.

git branch
*master

git branch -r
origin/master
origin/A

git fetch --all will update the list you see when you type git branch -r but it will not create the corresponding local branches.

What you want to do is checkout the branches. This will make a local copy of the remote branch and set the upstream to the remote.

git checkout -b mylocal origin/A

git branch
master
*mylocal

git branch -r
origin/master
origin/A

mylocal in this case is origin/A. The -b parameter will create the branch if it doesn't exist. You could also just type: git checkout A will will auto-name the new branch.