Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/2] sd: fix memory corruption by sd_read_cache_type

Linus Torvalds
2006-02-26T00:40:03Z

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Al Viro wrote:
>
> ObGit: is there any way to fetch _all_ branches from remote, creating local
> branches with the same names if they didn't exist yet? Ot, at least, get
> the full list of branches existing in the remote repository...

The magic is "git-ls-remote". In particular, the "--heads" flag limits it
to just showing branch heads.

Then you can feed that into "git fetch", which takes the format
"localname:remotename" to tell it how to fetch.

In other words, something like

git fetch remote $(git ls-remote --heads remote | awk '{print $2":"$2}')

should do what you asked for.

Linus