Set up git to pull and push all branches

Question

I'd like to push and pull all the branches by default, including the newly created ones.

Is there a setting that I can define for it?

Otherwise, when I add a new branch, locally and I want to pull it from the server, what is the simplest way to do it?

I created a new branch with the same name and tried to pull but it doesn't work. Asks me for all the remote config of the branch. How do I set it.

Answer 1

With modern git you always fetch all branches (as remote-tracking branches into refs/remotes/origin/* namespace, visible with git branch -r or git remote show origin).

By default (see documentation of push.default config variable) you push matching branches, which means that first you have to do git push origin branch for git to push it always on git push.

If you want to always push all branches, you can set up push refspec. Assuming that the remote is named origin you can either use git config:

$ git config --add remote.origin.push '+refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*'
$ git config --add remote.origin.push '+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'

or directly edit .git/config file to have something like the following:

[remote "origin"]
        url = [email protected]:/srv/git/repo.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
        fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
        push  = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/*
        push  = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*