git shallow clone (clone --depth) misses remote branches

After doing a shallow clone, to be able to checkout other branches from remote,

1. Run (thanks @jthill):

   git remote set-branches origin '*'
   

2. After that, do a git fetch -v

3. Finally git checkout the-branch-i-ve-been-looking-for

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Step 1 can also be done manually by editing .git/config.

For instance, change the folloing line from:

fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

to (replace master with *):

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

From reading the responses and the comment from @jthill, the thing that worked best for me was to use the set-branches option on the git remote command:

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dogescript/dogescript.git
$ git remote set-branches origin 'remote_branch_name'
$ git fetch --depth 1 origin remote_branch_name
$ git checkout remote_branch_name

This changes the list of branches tracked by the named remote so that we can fetch and checkout just the required branch.