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JustDoIt
JustDoIt

Reputation: 51

Fetch the latest changes from main branch

I create a test branch from main branch and start working on it,but then my team push the changes to mainline of the package.So How can I update the main branch with the new changes that is push by my teammate, then How can I also update my test branch with those changes.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7949

Answers (3)

phd
phd

Reputation: 94492

In your setup main is a non-current branch. (Unlike other answers) There is a simple way to update a non-current branch without switching to it:

git fetch origin main:main

After that merge main into the current test using git merge main. Or rebase test on top of the updated main:

git rebase main test

If you prefer merge you can do everything in one command:

git pull origin main:main

This command does git fetch origin main:main and then git merge main at once.

With rebase there are two commands:

git fetch origin main:main
git rebase main test

Most probably they can be combined in one command to fetch, update and rebase:

git pull --rebase origin main:main

Upvotes: 5

cavalcantelucas
cavalcantelucas

Reputation: 1382

  1. Make sure you have committed all the changes in your current branch
git add -A
git commit -m "Some clear commit message"
  1. Go to your main branch, fetch the remote changes and merge to your local main branch
git checkout main
git pull origin main
  1. Now go back to your local test branch and merge those changes with the main branch
git checkout test
git merge main
  1. That's it. If there are no conflicts, branches will be merged automatically. Otherwise, read carefully the prompted message and follow the instructions.

Upvotes: 3

Harshit Rastogi
Harshit Rastogi

Reputation: 2112

You need to back-merge main branch again after updating it on your local:

 git checkout main
 git pull origin main
 git checkout test
 git merge main
 git push

Upvotes: 2

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