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restoring all branches from a bundle in Git

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I created a dump from a repository. git bundle list-heads prints all the refs I meant to add. The problem is that after extracting the dump with git bundle unbundle the target repository doesn't contain any branches (git branch -a prints nothing). How can we extract a dump so that the branches are also restored?

posted May 24, 2013 by anonymous

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I think "git fetch /path/to/the/bundle " does that.

answer May 24, 2013 by anonymous
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