How to clone all remote branches in Git?

Question

I have a master and a development branch, both pushed to GitHub. I\'ve cloned, pulled, and fetched, but I re

Answer 1

If you have many remote branches that you want to fetch at once, do:

$ git pull --all

Now you can checkout any branch as you need to, without hitting the remote repository.

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Note: This will not create working copies of any non-checked out branches, which is what the question was asking. For that, see

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/4754797/430062
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/7216269/430062