When cloning and fetching from Unfuddle, I only get the master, how can I get the branches?

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I follow the instructions on unfuddle exactly and no matter what I only can the master back. Pushing branches works fine, but not fetching.

Does anyone have any advice? Thanks.

thank you very much. That worked! Do you happen to know why this branch does not show when I do a 'git branch'? — Scott, Nov 03 '11 at 16:52
You're welcome; I've added it as an answer so that you can accept it. the branch wasn't showing because `git branch` lists only local branches. To list also remote ones use `git branch -v` — CharlesB, Nov 03 '11 at 17:00

CharlesB · Answer 1 · 2011-11-03T17:05:34.680

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When you fetch a remote, the branches are in your repository, but as remote branches. git branch lists only local branches, so it doesn't appear.

You must make the branch local with git checkout -t origin/mybranch (this will also check it out in your working copy), or git branch mybranch origin/mybranch to create it without checkout.

edited Nov 03 '11 at 17:05

answered Nov 03 '11 at 16:59

CharlesB

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 21 '11 at 16:32

When you list branches you can do one of 3 things:

git branch

will show the local branches (only one will be created after a clone)

git branch -r

will show you the remote tracking branches. This is what you were interested in.

git branch -a

will show you all the branches (local and remote tracking)

To get a remote tracking branch to be tracked by a local branch,

git checkout -t origin/branchname

You may not need to do this if, for example, you just want to merge a remote branch to your current one.

git merge origin/somebranch

will work just fine.

When cloning and fetching from Unfuddle, I only get the master, how can I get the branches?

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