I cloned a repo using the
git clone -b <branch name> --single-branch <github url> <target directory>
This cloned ONLY this branch, but now I want to switch to the master and other branches. Is there any way besides clearing it out and starting over to clone the rest of the repo that I can undo the --single-branch preference?
You can tell Git to pull all branches like this:
git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*" git fetch origin If you look in .git/config, it'll look something like this:
[core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true precomposeunicode = false [remote "origin"] url = https://github.com/owner/repo.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master rebase = true I compared this to a full clone, and saw that the only difference was the "fetch" under [remote "origin"].
Note: I'm running Git version 1.8.2. The config options may have changed if you're running an older version of Git. If my commands don't work, then I'd recommend looking through .git/config to see if you can see something similar.
git command line tool is incredibly powerful (in fact, most of the commands are implemented in terms of other commands), so you can do a whole lot of stuff with it once you understand how the repository is laid out (basically how the .git folder works).
git clone --depth=1 --branch branchname [email protected]:foobar/repo.git destinationpath
git remote set-branches --add origin '*' and then git fetch.If you want to add a single branch, you can do the following:
git remote set-branches --add origin [remote-branch] git fetch origin [remote-branch]:[local-branch] Works with git version 1.9.1
fetch = lines to .git/config, very handy when you want to switch between two branches on the remote but not fetch a whole bunch of other branches. Thanks!
To add another remote branch to my local repository that was cloned using --single-branch, the following works for me:
git remote set-branches --add origin [remote-branch] git fetch git checkout [remote-branch] You can also use wildcards for [remote-branch], e.g.
git remote set-branches --add origin release-1.* git fetch git checkout release-1.5 This works using git version 2.21.1. Other answers suggesting to do git fetch origin [remote-branch]:[local-branch] did not work as it creates the local branch in an untracked state. When running git pull it first tried to merge all the commits of the remote branch to my local one once again.
For me worked:
git remote remove origin git remote add origin https://*<yourPath>*.git git fetch 
git config.
Just add the original repo as a new remote, and work off of there?
git remote add path/to/myrepo myNewOrigin git fetch myNewOrigin You can even delete your current 'origin' remote and rename 'myNewOrigin' to 'origin' if you would want to.
From there you can pull/merge/rebase.
Just change .git/config file of your local repo, line fetch of [remote origin] section.
Before something like this
[remote "origin"] url = https://github.com/owner/repo.git fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master After it will be so
[remote "origin"] url = https://github.com/owner/repo.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* I initially applied Dominik Pawlak's answer and it worked. But I wasn't able to pull any further changes, after I committed more code into my new branch.
There is another way of resetting single-branch entirely, which hasn't been mentioned here:
git remote remove origin git remote add origin [email protected]:{yourProject}/{yourRepo}.git git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/{yourBranch} {yourBranch} git pull This resets everything to the original.
