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Pulling to Keep up-to-date with Changes
While working on a project, one should get the most recent changes to the local copy.
With Git, that can be done with pull.
pull is a combination of two different commands:
- fetch
- merge
Git Fetch
fetch gets all the change history of a tracked branch/repo.
Fetch updates on the local Git to see what has changed on GitHub:
Example:
[user@localhost] $ git fetch origin
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), 733 bytes | 3.00 KiB/s, done.
From https://github.com/webhostguru/dynamic-drop-down
e0b6038..d29d69f master -> origin/master
Once we have the recent changes, we can check the status:
Example:
[user@localhost] $ git log origin/master
commit d29d69ffe2ee9e6df6fa0d313bb0592b50f3b853 (origin/master)
Author: webhostguru <77673807+webhostguru-test@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri Mar 26 14:59:14 2021 +0100
Updated README.md with a line about GitHub
commit e0b6038b1345e50aca8885d8fd322fc0e5765c3b (HEAD -> master)
Merge: dfa79db 1f1584e
Author: webhostguru
Date: Fri Mar 26 12:42:56 2021 +0100
…
…
That seems okay as expected, but it can also be verified by showing the differences between the local master and origin/master:
Example:
[user@localhost] $ git diff origin/master
diff –git a/README.md b/README.md
index 23a0122..a980c39 100644
— a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,4 @@
After this, the process of safely merging can take place.
Git Merge
The Git Merge combines the current branch, with a specified branch.
As, we know that the updates are as expected, and the process to merge the recurrent branch (master) with origin/master:
Example:
[user@localhost] $ git merge origin/master
Updating e0b6038..d29d69f
Fast-forward
README.md | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Check our status again to confirm we are up to date:
Example:
[user@localhost] $ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/master’.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
Git Pull
The pull is a combination of fetch and merge. The Git Pull command pulls all changes from a remote repository into the branch you are working on.
Make another change to the Readme.md file on GitHub.

Use the pull command to update our local Git:
[user@localhost] $ git pull origin
remote: Enumerating objects: 5, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
remote: Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), 794 bytes | 1024 bytes/s, done.
From https://github.com/webhostguru/dynamic-drop-down
a7cdd4b..ab6b4ed master -> origin/master
Updating a7cdd4b..ab6b4ed
Fast-forward
README.md | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)