Pushing/Fetching all branches at once in magit

Question

Context: I have a relatively small project, in which I use branches to work on new features, so that when I'm finished, then I manually merge branches as I need.

I usually keep the same exact copy of my branches on many machines as I work remotely, and that's what I need. I'm not using GitHub, my remote server is just a Server of my company where we keep projects on.

So the question is: How do I push, or fetch all branches at once using magit?

What I'm trying to achieve is the same exact output that I would have by executing these commands in the terminal:

git push --all

or

git fetch --all

More info;

• Emacs version: GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-09-17

• Magit version: 20190202.1535

If more is needed don't mind asking. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Fetching

With the default Git configuration, fetching a remote will fetch all branches (i.e. all the refs the remote has under refs/heads/). So, from within Magit, you shouldn't need to do anything other than fetching the remote. If the remote is configured as the upstream, that would be F u with the default Magit bindings.

If you want to fetch all remotes (not just all branches from a single remote), you can do that with Magit's magit-fetch-all command (F a), as mentioned by @Prgrm.celeritas.

Pushing

Magit doesn't have a command that does something like git push --all REMOTE. As mentioned in another answer, you can run a custom Git command via the Magit interface.

Another option is to define a command yourself. For example,

(defun my/magit-push-all ()
  "Push all branches."
  (interactive)
  (magit-run-git-async "push" "-v"
                       (magit-read-remote "Remote")
                       "--all"))

And then bind that command in the push popup:

(magit-define-popup-action 'magit-push-popup
  ?a "Push all" #'my/magit-push-all)

Answer 2

fa will fetch all remotes. I don't know if there is a way to push all remotes though. You could always use !! then push --all. !! lets you run any git command in the git root. Its what I use when magit doesn't have a popup option I need.