Fetch and update branches

Fetch only default remote

Implied origin.

$ git fetch

Add -v for verbose.

Fetch tags

This fetches tags but not branches.

$ git fetch --tags

Fetch all remotes

Useful if you push to say GitHub and BitBucket, or your have origin for your code of a forked repo and upstream for the original repo.

$ git fetch --all

Fetch all branches

If you do a shallow clone, you’ll only be able to fetch the default branch and can’t checkout other branches on the remote.

This fixes it. I tested this successfuly after reading this SO thread.

$ git remote set-branches origin '*'
$ git fetch -v