gitfaq: fetching and pulling a repository
Add an issue in 'Common Issues' section which addresses the confusion between performing a 'fetch' and a 'pull'. Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shourya Shukla <shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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can then be copied alongside and modified as appropriate. This second, modified
file is usually ignored to prevent accidentally committing it.
+[[fetching-and-pulling]]
+How do I know if I want to do a fetch or a pull?::
+ A fetch stores a copy of the latest changes from the remote
+ repository, without modifying the working tree or current branch.
+ You can then at your leisure inspect, merge, rebase on top of, or
+ ignore the upstream changes. A pull consists of a fetch followed
+ immediately by either a merge or rebase. See linkgit:git-pull[1].
+
Hooks
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