Git / Bash - clone repository with all branches

In this short article, we would like to show how to clone Git repository with all its branches.

Quick solution:

git clone https://domain.com/path/to/repository.git

cd "!$:t:r" && git branch -a | sed -n '/\/HEAD /d; /remotes/p;' | xargs -L1 git checkout -t


# optionally you can later run commands:

git fetch --all
git pull --all

Where:

• cd "!$:t:r" navigates to repository directory achieved from https://domain.com/path/to/repository.git
  • Where:
    • !$ returns last argument from previous command,
    • :t returns tailing part from the path (repository.git in our case),
    • :r returns only basename from the filename (repository in our case),
• sed -n '/\/HEAD /d; /remotes/p;' prints only lines with remotes word, omitting lines with /HEAD word,
• xargs -L1 git checkout -t takes input lines as arguments and calls for each line git checkout -t command.