I don’t blame you for getting frustrated about this. The best way to look at is this. There are potentially three versions of every remote branch: The actual branch on the remote repository (e.g., remote repo at https://example.com/repo.git, refs/heads/master) Your snapshot of that branch locally (stored under refs/remotes/…) (e.g., local repo, refs/remotes/origin/master) And a local … Read more
I believe this occurs when you are trying to checkout a remote branch that your local git repo is not aware of yet. Try: git remote show origin If the remote branch you want to checkout is under “New remote branches” and not “Tracked remote branches” then you need to fetch them first: git remote … Read more
To update the local list of remote branches: git remote update origin –prune To show all local and remote branches that (local) Git knows about: git branch -a
You might be needing a cleanup: git gc –prune=now or you might be needing a prune: git remote prune public prune Deletes all stale tracking branches under <name>. These stale branches have already been removed from the remote repository referenced by <name>, but are still locally available in “remotes/<name>”. With –dry-run option, report what branches … Read more
For the vast majority[1] of visitors here, the correct and simplest answer to the question “How do I list all remote branches in Git 1.7+?” is: git branch -r For a small minority[1] git branch -r does not work. If git branch -r does not work try: git ls-remote –heads <remote-name> If git branch -r … Read more