On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 04:34:30PM -0700, Scott Johnson wrote: > Hello git experts: > > Recently, I've encountered the problem where I would like to set my > local repository copy to track all branches on a given remote. There > does not appear to be a switch for this in the git-branch command > currently, however, I will admit that my somewhat limited > understanding of the git-branch manpage might be causing me simply not > to see it.
I don't know about a command line option for this, but I think there's a way to achieve what you're looking for. > So, for example, if I were to run: > > git-branch --track-remote origin > > and I had two branches on origin, master and maint, respectively, > after the command finishes, my local repo would now have two branches, > master (set up to track origin/master), and maint (setup to track > origin/maint). You could do something like this in .git/config: [remote "origin"] fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* You won't be able to fetch if you would overwrite the current branch, though. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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