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Asked: 2026-05-13T15:41:41+00:00

I am having great success with git push –mirror to make backup copies to

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I am having great success with git push --mirror to make backup copies to a bare repo. But after search on SO and elsewhere, I cannot find a way to clone the thing locally with all branches. I do not want to use git clone since I don’t want my local repo to know about the bare repo. If I use git pull it only brings down the HEAD branch.

Guessing:

git pull /data/Dropbox/backup/that_stuff.git *

gets me nowhere, of course.

How do I get the entire repo with all branches back again? I realize I could probably just copy the bare repo to my .git directory, but that seems like a bad idea.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try git fetch instead of git pull

    Since git pull is there to fetch a branch and merge it to a local branch, it wouldn’t make alot of sense trying to merge all remote branches to a local branches.

    $ git fetch a-repo_url

    The above command copies all branches from the remote refs/heads/ namespace and stores them to the local refs/remotes/remoteRpo/ namespace, unless the branch.<name>.fetch option is used to specify a non-default refspec..
    Try:

    $ git fetch a-repo-url +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

    could force fetching all heads for all branches.
    See this SO question.

    The OP yar reports:

    git pull /data/Dropbox/backup/mjdj.git/ +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*

    works.

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