Track all remote git branches as local branches

Question

Tracking a single remote branch as a local branch is straightforward enough.

$ git checkout --track -b ${branch_name} origin/${branch_name}

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Answer 1

Using bash, If you want to checkout all branches:

for remote in `git branch -r`; do git checkout $(echo $remote | cut -d'/' -f 2); done

It’s important to note that when you do a fetch that brings down new remote-tracking branches, you don’t automatically have local, editable copies of them.