Git not recognizing any remote branches

Question

First, I've been using Git for about 3 days total my entire life. I've read a lot, and I understand the basics a bit. So we're trying to setup a staging server. The workflow should look like this "local -> staging -> live" My local machine can connect to the git repo and it sees all the branches, and allows me to push the branches. The live server can see the branches and pull/merge. The staging server was able to clone the master and can see remotes/origin/{and a few other things here}. But the staging server doesn't see all the branches. I've tried to fetch, I've hard reset, I've setup a tracking branch, and any other thing SO and google have suggested. I have no idea how to proceed here. This is my output for "branch -a" locally: ``` $ git branch -a * all-to-staging choose-all country-route master select-to-autocomplete sharebuttons remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/master remotes/origin/all-to-staging remotes/origin/choose-all remotes/origin/country-route remotes/origin/master remotes…

Accepted Answer

So I figured it out, hopefully this might help someone else out later.

using `git remote -v` I realized that my origin was pointing to the live site, and not to my repository.

With this knowledge I follwed this guide https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-remote-s-url/ to change the remote url with the following commands:

```
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/{my username}/{my repo}.git
```

SSH is similar, if your repo is private it might be better to do it this way

```
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:{my username}/{my repo}.git
```

Check your origins with `git remote -v`, you should see your new origin url

Now there's 2 things to do here, the proper thing, is to make a new directory and Pull your repo down again so that git is basically set up right, that looks like this: cd .. mkdir {new project directory} cd {new project directory} git clone git@github.com:{my username}/{my repo}.git git branch -a git checkout {your branch name} git pull

The second way is trickier because you might run into issues, but sometimes a projects setup is super complicated and it's worth taking the risk before having to set it up again. (This is what I had to do to solve my issue)

Check for branches with `git branch -a`, if you still don't see your branches, then you need to fetch `git fetch` and then you should see your branches, and you can switch to your selected branch with `git checkout`

it would look like this:

```
git branch -a
{no branches shown}
git fetch
git branch -a
{all branches shown}
git checkout {your-branch-name}
git pull
```

Git not recognizing any remote branches

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