Pulling changes from a remote repository

As you work in a team, your team members will also be making changes to the remote repository. When you want to get the changes done in the remote repository to your local repository, you use the Pull option. But before you perform the Pull operation, you need to configure it.

In Package Explorer, right-click on the project and select Team | Remote | Configure Fetch from Upstream...:

Figure 3.31: Configuring Git Fetch
In Git, both Pull and Fetch can get the changes from a remote repository. However, the Fetch operation does not merge the changes in the local repository. The Pull operation first fetches ...

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