Create local branches for all remote branches

If you ever want to create local branches for all remote branches in Git, you can use this script:

#!/bin/bash -e
remote=${1:-origin}
for b in $(git branch -r | grep $remote/ | grep -v $remote/HEAD | cut -d/ -f2); do
    git show-ref --verify --quiet refs/heads/$b || git branch $b $remote/$b
done

It takes an optional command line argument: the name of the remote, or origin by default. If a local branch with the same name already exists, the script will leave it alone.

Create local branches for all remote branches —04 January 2014