git-fetch

These are the sequence of steps I have performed: committed my changes in branch to local master (commit id dc9afg2k ) git fetch origin master && git merge origin master git checkout master git pull (this pulled all recent changes) git fetch origin master && git merge origin master git reset --hard origin/master git checkout branch git blog git reset --hard dc9afg2k (commit successful) git checkout master git log (this was gone back to 2 days ago). git pull ( master is not updating with current origin/master ). VonC An out of sync master can happen when the remote repo has received a forced

According to the documentation, git pull performs a git fetch then a git merge, however in that case performing git pull origin master should perform a git fetch origin master right? However, it does not appear to be doing so. Here is an example. Supposed my remote origin master (on GitHub in my case) has the following history: commit 1111111 : my first commit commit 2222222 : a commit from someone else and I only have my first commit locally as doing following shows git checkout master git log --pretty=format:'%h' -n 1 1111111 git checkout origin/master git log --pretty=format:'%h' -n 1

I didn't want to lose some information after a git pull , so I did a git fetch before. Where can I read the new modifications after a git fetch ? I went to the FETCH_HEAD file, but there was nothing more than a big number. kostix git fetch origin by default fetches everything from the remote named "origin" and updates (or creates) the so-called "remote-tracking branches" for that remote. Say, for the remote named "origin" which contain branches named "master" and "feature", running git fetch remote will result in the remote-tracking branches named "origin/master" and "origin/feature" being

I would like to know if my local repo is up to date (and if not, ideally, I would like to see the changes). How could I check this without doing git fetch or git pull ? Try git fetch --dry-run The manual ( git help fetch ) says: --dry-run Show what would be done, without making any changes. git remote show origin Result: HEAD branch: master Remote branch: master tracked Local branch configured for 'git pull': master merges with remote master Local ref configured for 'git push': master pushes to master (local out of date) <------- you can use git status -uno to check if your local branch is up

I have set up some remote tracking branches in git, but I never seem to be able to merge them into the local branch once I have updated them with 'git fetch'. For example, suppose I have remote branch called 'an-other-branch'. I set that up locally as a tracking branch using git branch --track an-other-branch origin/an-other-branch So far, so good. But if that branch gets updated (usually by me moving machine and commiting from that machine), and I want to update it on the original machine, I'm running into trouble with fetch/merge: git fetch origin an-other-branch git merge origin/an-other

On my branch I had some files in .gitignore On a different branch those files are not. I want to merge the different branch into mine, and I don't care if those files are no longer ignored or not. Unfortunately I get this: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge How would I modify my pull command to overwrite those files, without me having to find, move or delete those files myself? The problem is that you are not tracking the files locally but identical files are tracked remotely so in order to "pull" your system would be forced to overwrite the local files

I'm writing a tool to backup all my repositories from Bitbucket (which supports Git and Mercurial) to my local machine. It already works for Mercurial, where I do it like this: create a new empty repository without a working copy on the local machine (the same like a bare Git repository) pull from the remote repository into the local empty repository Now I'm trying to do the same with Git. I already found out that I can't directly pull to a bare repository and that I should use fetch instead. So I tried it: C:\test>git fetch https://github.com/SamSaffron/dapper-dot-net.git remote: Counting

So here's the situation: $ git status # On branch master # Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by [x] commits. # There are several questions about this on SO already, but none seem to specifically address the type of scenario I have. This answer to one of the questions comes closest, but doesn't go into detail. I'll just quote it verbatim: If you get this message after doing a "git pull remote branch", try following it up with a "git fetch". Fetch seems to update the local representation of the remote branch, which doesn't necessarily happen when you do a "git pull remote branch". That tip