How to make fetch get everything?

How to make fetch get everything?

[garyc618]

Hi List,

In one book it says that "git fetch [remote]" pulls down everything you
don't currently have in your local repository.  However, when I look at
FETCH_HEAD it only has the master head.  Other branches don't seem to get
fetched.

I tried "git fetch [remote] *:*" but that gave fatal error messages.

Then I tried "git fetch [remote] "*:foo/*" which worked great - I got every
single branch.

I am setting up a shared repo for a small devel team, which I want everyone
to push/pull to.   It seems safer to do that, than to have people just make
the shared mount their current directory, then run git commands, but how can
people see every branch in the shared repo using only fetch, other than the
trick with foo/* that I used above?  Am I missing something, or is this just
going to be kind of clunky?

Thanks,

Gary Carter

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Re: How to make fetch get everything?

[Johannes Sixt]

Am 6/1/2011 2:06, schrieb garyc618:
> Hi List,
> 
> In one book it says that "git fetch [remote]" pulls down everything you
> don't currently have in your local repository.  However, when I look at
> FETCH_HEAD it only has the master head.  Other branches don't seem to get
> fetched.
> 
> I tried "git fetch [remote] *:*" but that gave fatal error messages.
> 
> Then I tried "git fetch [remote] "*:foo/*" which worked great - I got every
> single branch.

Assuming you have either cloned from the remote or have set it up using
"git remote add origin /where/the/remote/is", you should have tried

   git fetch origin

which would give you all remote branches in [refs/]remotes/origin/*.

-- Hannes