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how to get all branches of my forked git repo

I have cloned, pulled and fetched my remote git repo at BitBucket. But I could only get the master branch. My repo at BitBucket has 4 branches:

  • master
  • fix/cleanup
  • etc/schema_note
  • feature/sampledata

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I have found the two questions this and that. I followed some of the instructions in those questions.
When I tried git branch -a, I could not see the other three branches.

*master  
 remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master  
 remotes/origin/master

I tried git checkout origin/fix/cleanup. I got an error message.

error: pathspec 'origin/fix/cleanup` did not match any file(s) known to git.

I tried checkout -b, but got another error.

$ git checkout -b fix/cleanup origin/fix/cleanup
fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'fix/cleanup' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'origin/fix/cleanup' which can not be resolved as com
mit?

I also tried to execute the oneliner. 

for remote in `git branch -r`; do git branch --track $remote; done

But it gave me the new branches origin/HEAD and origin/master in my local, not for the other 3 branches. What is going on my repo?

I tried git fetch --all and git pull --all. They gave me nothing changed.

Solution

  • I eventually found a fix. I tweaked the git config file. I changed

    fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

    to

    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

    Then, $ git fetch --all worked for the changes.

    Fetching origin
Password for 'https://[email protected]':
remote: Counting objects: 993, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (581/581), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (966/966), 723.76 KiB | 8.00 KiB/s, done.
emote: Total 966 (delta 324), reused 964 (delta 322)Resolving deltas:   0% (0/32

Resolving deltas: 100% (324/324), completed with 21 local objects.
From https://bitbucket.org/myusername/myproj
 * [new branch]      etc/schema_note -> origin/etc/schema_note
 * [new branch]      feature/sampledata -> origin/feature/sampledata
 * [new branch]      fix/cleanup -> origin/fix/cleanup

    Now, $ git branch -a started to list all remote branches;

    * master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/etc/schema_note
  remotes/origin/feature/sampledata
  remotes/origin/fix/cleanup
  remotes/origin/master

    Finally, I checkout for every branch.

    TPP@SITHU /d/xampp/htdocs/myproj (master)
$ git checkout etc/schema_note
Branch etc/schema_note set up to track remote branch etc/schema_note from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'etc/schema_note'

TPP@SITHU /d/xampp/htdocs/myproj (etc/schema_note)
$ git checkout feature/sampledata
Branch feature/sampledata set up to track remote branch feature/sampledata from
origin.
Switched to a new branch 'feature/sampledata'

TPP@SITHU /d/xampp/htdocs/myproj (feature/sampledata)
$ git checkout fix/cleanup
Branch fix/cleanup set up to track remote branch fix/cleanup from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'fix/cleanup'

    Here is my final repo branch list:

    $ git branch -a
  etc/schema_note
  feature/sampledata
* fix/cleanup
  master
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master
  remotes/origin/etc/schema_note
  remotes/origin/feature/sampledata
  remotes/origin/fix/cleanup
  remotes/origin/master