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I have a remote Git (Github) repo. I cloned it using the git clone command. but when I try to see the branches Using the git branch command it only shows one branch, 'main',while there is at least 15+ branches on the remote repo, which are visible via the command git branch -r. How can I get my all the remote branches into my local repo?

Raedwald
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Pranay kumar
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    If you can see them with `git branch -a` (or `-r`) then they exist in your local repository. You can reference them by their full name, e.g. `origin/somebranch`. If you want to switch to a remote branch, use `git switch branchname` (without `origin/`) – Jan Wilamowski Aug 23 '21 at 05:49
  • https://stackoverflow.com/a/72156/7976758 Found in https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bgit%5D+clone+all+branches – phd Aug 23 '21 at 08:58

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The idea is to not "pollute" your local branch namespace with all the remote tracking branches.

Using git branch -avv, you will see both local (main) and remote tracking branches (origin/xxx).
You can use the "guess mode" of git switch to create a local branch which will have its corresponding remote branch as upstream.

git switch <branch>

If <branch> is not found, but there does exist a tracking branch in exactly one remote (call it <remote>) with a matching name, treat as equivalent to

git switch -c <branch> --track <remote>/<branch>
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