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GIT pulling or cloning repository only gets Master branch

I host on BitBucket when I git clone a repository or use git pull origin master and git pull origin myBranch it does pull second time, but when I list branches with git branch -v I only see master. Doing git status shows nothing too.

How do I pull all of the branches off the web repo to my local repo?

Could it be that it's because I changed computers and name on the git settings changed so it only lets me get master since it's the default branch and the other one can be only accessed by whoever created it?

Solution

  • The branches do exist but you can't see them

    Try using this:

    git branch -a

    You'll now see the list of remote branches in origin e.g.

    Output:

    remotes/origin/tk_removes_call_centers
remotes/origin/tk_warm_transfer_fix
remotes/origin/update_README

    and you can then

    git checkout [any_individual_branch_name]

    You can also get the same list with git branch -v --all which includes the most recent commit info, i.e.

    git branch -v --all

    output:

    remotes/origin/tk_removes_call_centers     1478b14 re-adding call feedback workers
remotes/origin/tk_warm_transfer_fix        94720c5 handling blank auto policy
remotes/origin/update_README               a769b82 Update README

    git branch -v (without --all) only shows branches you've worked on. When you use --all you see all the tracking branches in origin/

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