Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Reference: 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11623862/fetch-in-git-doesnt-get-all-branches

Problem:

$ git checkout origin/INF-2308

error: pathspec 'origin/INF-2308' did not match any file(s) known to git

Solution: 

The problem can be seen when checking the remote.origin.fetch setting

(The lines starting with $ are bash prompts with the commands I typed. The other lines are the resulting output)

$ git config --get remote.origin.fetch
+refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

As you can see, in my case, the remote was set to fetch the master branch specifically and only. I fixed it as per below, including the second command to check the results.

$ git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"
$ git config --get remote.origin.fetch
+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
$ git checkout INF-2308

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