Update: So, over a year later and I’ve had some feedback from a colleague (thanks Ben!). Nothing here is drastically wrong, but some clarifications should help!
When I started out with git …
… who am I kidding, I’m still a git n00b. Today, I tweeted about git. I wanted to know what the differene between pull, fetch and clone is. After discovering that, really, 140 characters isn’t enough to answer the questions, I had a play around.
Git Pull
From what I understand, git pull will pull down from a remote whatever you ask (so, whatever trunk you’re asking for) and instantly merge it into the branch you’re in when you make the request. Pull is a high-level request that runs ‘fetch’ then a ‘merge’ by default, or a rebase with ‘–rebase’. You could do without it, it’s just a convenience.
The above will merge the remote…
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