Remote branch is not showing up in “git branch -r”

Question

I have been pushing to a remote Bitbucket repository and recently a colleague has pushed a new branch he created to the same repository.

I\'m trying to fetch the cha

Answer 1

Unfortunately, git branch -a and git branch -r do not show you all remote branches, if you haven't executed a "git fetch".

git remote show origin works consistently all the time. Also git show-ref shows all references in the Git repository. However, it works just like the git branch command.