The problem can be seen when checking the
(The lines starting with
remote.origin.fetch setting(The lines starting with
$ are bash prompts with the commands I typed. The other lines are the resulting output)$ git config --get remote.origin.fetch
+refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
As you can see, in my case, the remote was set to fetch the master branch specifically and only. I fixed it as per below, including the second command to check the results.
$ git config --replace-all remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"
$ git config --get remote.origin.fetch
+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
The wildcard
* of course means everything under that path.