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

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.