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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@@ -223,6 +223,14 @@ a file checked into the repository which is a template or set of defaults which
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can then be copied alongside and modified as appropriate. This second, modified
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file is usually ignored to prevent accidentally committing it.
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+[[fetching-and-pulling]]
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+How do I know if I want to do a fetch or a pull?::
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+ A fetch stores a copy of the latest changes from the remote
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+ repository, without modifying the working tree or current branch.
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+ You can then at your leisure inspect, merge, rebase on top of, or
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+ ignore the upstream changes. A pull consists of a fetch followed
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+ immediately by either a merge or rebase. See linkgit:git-pull[1].
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Hooks
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