git shallow clone (clone --depth) misses remote branches

Question

After cloning a remote repository it does not show any remote branch by -a option. What could be the problem? How to debug it? In this snippet two of the remote branches are

Answer 1

After doing a shallow clone, to be able to checkout other branches from remote,

1. Run (thanks @jthill):

   git remote set-branches origin '*'
   

2. After that, do a git fetch -v

3. Finally git checkout the-branch-i-ve-been-looking-for

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Step 1 can also be done manually by editing .git/config.

For instance, change the folloing line from:

fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

to (replace master with *):

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*