How to clone all branches on Git?

Question

I’d like to know how to clone automatically all remote branches in my local repository without execute one command for each one like this:

git checkout -b <branch> <remote>/<branch>

There are a lot of branches, too many to do one command for each one.

Answer

I’d recommend create an alias (showed below), which executes ‘checkout’ for every remote branches. OBS: Each local branch’s name in your local repository will be the same as in the remote.

git config --global alias.clone-branches '! git branch -a | sed -n "/\/HEAD /d; /\/master$/d; /remotes/p;" | xargs -L1 git checkout -t'

After you create the alias, just execute like this:

git clone-branches