#Git pull remote branch updates update
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Usually you see this two-names form when pushing: git push origin master:master for instance. One of these is your name-your branch, in your repository-and the other is their name, that is, the name they use for their branch in their repository. The pair usually, but not always, has the same two branch names on both sides of the colon : between them. The 'refspec' is, at its second-simplest, just a pair of branch names, like master:master, develop:develop, and the like. I used the word 'refspec' above several times, without ever defining it. If, as in your example, you're currently on master and it merges with origin's master, Git will run the git merge step using whatever new stuff it brought in that went under origin/master (note the slash here). For this part, Git cares mightily about which branch you're on now, and which 'remote branch' 3 it merges with.

#Git pull remote branch updates code

(In sufficiently old versions of Git I think the pull command gets more restrictive during the fetch step.)īut, having potentially fetched and updated all the origin/* remote-tracking branches, the pull code moves on to the git merge step.

#Git pull remote branch updates update

This means that either git fetch (assuming origin) or git fetch origin will update all your remote-tracking branches for origin, provided you are running a reasonably modern (1.8.4 or later) Git. If you don't pass extra arguments, git fetch will fetch the default set of refspecs for the remote, which is normally 2 'all branches'. In versions of Git predating 1.8.4, this prevented git fetch from updating any of your remote-tracking branches, but since 1.8.4, explicitly fetching branch br also updates your origin/ br (assuming the remote in question is named origin). For instance, if you git fetch origin br, the fetch step gets the name of the remote ( origin) and br as a 'refspec'. 1 The pull command passes most of its arguments right through to the fetch step. Remember, git pull is basically shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge. But be prepared for Git documentation to use their terminology. Instead of remote branch, I like to say branch name as seen on the other (remote) Git repository instead of remote-tracking branch name (e.g., origin/master), I call this a remote-tracking name and instead of tracking branch, I use the phrase branch name with an upstream set. Long after I wrote this answer originally, I find these terms just confuse people-including me!-and these days, I prefer my own terminology. Note that these are terms that Git (and ) use.

#Git pull remote branch updates full

Sidebar: Make sure you correctly understand the differences between what the Git documentation calls remote branches, remote-tracking branches and tracking branches to take full advantage of the following explanations. The pull command allows options, and many of these have interesting (and confusing and potentially very un-nice) effects. I shared this tip over on Mastodon and went semi-viral (100+ boosts, 200+ favs) - well, as viral as a Mastodon post about git rebase can go.The short answer is 'no'-or maybe even 'no and yes', if one reads only the title of your question-but this is somewhat misleading.

I have my IDE set to automatically fetch the latest changes, so I may find myself doing the second version more often. This will rebase your branch onto the latest changes from the remote main branch even if they haven’t been applied to your local main branch yet. You then have the latest updates and can rebase your feature branch onto main (or merge, if you prefer).Īlternatively, if you’ve already fetched the latest changes (even if they haven’t been applied to your local main branch), you can do it in one command: git rebase origin main The first command fetches the latest changes from the remote and applies them to your local main branch.

However, I recently learned you can do this in two commands instead of four: git fetch origin main:main I used to take the long way round: git checkout main The problem: you’re working on some changes in a separate branch and want to update your branch with new changes from the main branch. This is just a quick TIL about updating your feature branch with changes from main without switching between branches.