How to fetch all remote branches from remote?

How to fetch all remote branches from remote?

[skillzero]

Is there a way to fetch all the remote branches of a remote? I have
one computer that cloned a repository from a server and I want clone
that computer's repository to another computer, but it only brings
over the local branches from the clone. I'd like to also get all the
remote branches so it's the same as if I had cloned directly from the
server. Just as if I had cp -R'd the .git folder (except with the
remote tracking info I get when I clone). The source computer's
repository is using git-svn so I'm trying to make a copy of that
repository in a way that I can just push and pull changes to the
intermediate git svn repository then later do the final git svn
dcommit.

Is the best way to just copy the whole .git folder to the destination
computer and then add the original as a remote? That's a last resort
for me because as new svn branches are created, I'd like to pick them
up when I do git pull's from the second computer.

Re: How to fetch all remote branches from remote?

[Peter Harris]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM, <skillzero@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to fetch all the remote branches of a remote?

git config --add remote.$remote.fetch +refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*; git fetch

> I have
> one computer that cloned a repository from a server and I want clone
> that computer's repository to another computer, but it only brings
> over the local branches from the clone. I'd like to also get all the
> remote branches so it's the same as if I had cloned directly from the
> server. Just as if I had cp -R'd the .git folder (except with the
> remote tracking info I get when I clone). The source computer's
> repository is using git-svn so I'm trying to make a copy of that
> repository in a way that I can just push and pull changes to the
> intermediate git svn repository then later do the final git svn
> dcommit.

The above is what I use to set up my working copies from a
cron-enabled git-svn mirror.

Also,  if you're pushing instead of dcommitting from each clone, you
may wish to read  this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111356/focus=112156
- your setup probably isn't that complex, but you might want to be
aware of some of the issues you might face in the "forced rebase"
environment of svn.

Peter Harris