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Mohideen bin Mohammed
Mohideen bin Mohammed

Reputation: 20137

Git Pull vs Git fetch Which one is Preferable?

I know the difference between git pull and git fetch .

but i want to know, Which one is Preferable?

because git pull doing merge automatically without my knowledge. thats the different i found. git fetch wont do that. is there anything else?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 21426

Answers (2)

Till
Till

Reputation: 4523

git pull will do a git fetch and then a git merge. So it depends what do you want to do.

If you prefer to handle manually the merge you shouldn't use git pull

What is the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?

Upvotes: 8

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 520898

Contrary to the above comments, git pull and git fetch are not completely different commands. Rather, doing a git pull on a given branch is the same as doing a git fetch followed by either merging or rebasing the current branch on its remote counterpart which was just updated.

The utility of doing a git pull is that often the reason we fetch is to update a local branch with the version on the remote. So it is a bit of a convenience. We can always do fetch followed by merge separately.

Upvotes: 12

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