How to fetch all remote branches?

Question

Somehow one of my repositories refuses to fetch new branches:

C:\\temp>git fetch --all
Fetching origin

C:\\temp>git branch -a
* develop
remotes/origin         


        

Answer 1

Check you git config --get remote.origin.fetch refspec.

It would only fetch all branches if the refspec is

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

If the refspec is:

+refs/heads/develop:refs/remotes/origin/develop

Then a fetch would only bring back the develop branch.
This is typical of a git clone --branch develop --single-branch.