| 20 | Retrieving Remote Changes |
You must keep your repository in sync with the changes from
everyone else that is collaborating on it with you. You do this
with the git fetch command. Fetching is
closely related to git pull, and many
people incorrectly use the two commands interchangeably.
Fetching changes from a remote repository retrievesâliterally fetchesâthe changes from that remote repository. This stores them in their remote branches on your local repository. You can use this to see what changes are on the remote repository without affecting your local repository.
Git fetches the changes from the origin remote repository if you donât specify a remote. You can fetch from another repository by providing the name of that remote ...
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