git fetch only for current branch

Question

I know that I can fetch any remote branch to any local branch, but is there also some kind of shortcut to fetch just from the tracked remote branch to the current tracking local

Answer 1

Let's assume that you have origin remote with master, develop branches. You want to sync master but not develop.

You can do the following steps:

git fetch origin
git merge origin/master

UPDATE: in case of only branch have to be fetched:

git fetch origin master
git merge FETCH_HEAD