alhoqbani/clone-all-branches.md

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Clone a remote git repository with all branches and tags

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Create a folder for the repo.

mkdir ~/Desktop/repo && cd ~/Desktop/repo

Clone the remote repo as a bare repository to .git directory insdie the repo directory.

git clone --bare git@github.com:user/repo.git .git # <-- notice the extra .git

Convert the repo to a regular repo

git config --bool core.bare false

Reset the repo

git reset --hard

Now, you have the remote branches and tags in the local repository.

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