How to fetch all Git branches

Question

I cloned a Git repository, which contains about five branches. However, when I do git branch I only see one of them:

$ git branch
* master
         


        

Answer 1

Based on the answer by Learath2, here's what I did after doing git clone [...] and cd-ing into the created directory:

git branch -r | grep -v master | awk {print\$1} | sed 's/^origin\/\(.*\)$/\1 &/' | xargs -n2 git checkout -b

Worked for me but I can't know it'll work for you. Be careful.