Difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?
In the simplest terms, git pull
does a git fetch
followed by a git merge
.
You can do a git fetch
at any time to update your remote-tracking branches under refs/remotes/<remote>/
.
This operation never changes any of your own local branches under refs/heads
, and is safe to do without changing your working copy. I have even heard of people running git fetch
periodically in a cron job in the background (although I wouldn’t recommend doing this).
A git pull
is what you would do to bring a local branch up-to-date with its remote version, while also updating your other remote-tracking branches.
Git documentation: git pull
August 2, 2017 ∙
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