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Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsDifference between git fetch and git pull
I'll be honest, working as an individual I don't tend to use GitHub as a collaborator. I use it as a way of saving and backing up my projects. When I'm getting my projects up to date, I git clone
URLS if I need to or I use git pull
.
In this video we use git fetch
. What's the difference between the 2 and if I used git fetch in the same way, would it work?
I think I've understood the process of using merge and fetch though and I'm keen to solidify these so I can learn to contribute and collaborate in the future.
1 Answer
Steven Parker
231,172 PointsAs I understand it, git fetch
is a basic download while git pull
also incorporates the download into code you may be working on. So git pull
would essentially be a combination of git fetch
followed by git merge
.
I also found a short (under 4 minutes) YouTube Video on this topic that you might like.
Good seeing you online again. Happy coding!
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsSo it sounds like using
git pull
is something you'd only use if you were absolutely sure you wanted to do in case it introduced something into your local repo that you didn't want in there. Butgit fetch
wouldn't do that? In any case, I've never really had a problem usinggit pull
but maybe that's just cos of the way I use git.I haven't been away really. Not really, things just been a bit chaotic behind the scenes :)
Steven Parker
231,172 PointsSteven Parker
231,172 PointsI can certainly relate to chaos. Plus we don't have the immediate connection channel we used to.