Thanks everyone, for the explanations. Extremely useful! One final nuance: What then does
git fetch do different from git fetch origin ? - Pito On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Jeffrey <jefr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A key note in git-fetch(1) is: >> >> > A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to <ref>: when >> > pulling/fetching, so it merges <ref> into the current branch without >> > storing the remote branch anywhere locally. > > That bit of the documentation seems a little off to me. There's no > way that "git fetch" actually performs a merge. What it does is fetch > the objects and update FETCH_HEAD to point to the fetched ref. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
