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git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository

The git command fetch retrieves changes done in a remote repository.

It will not merge the changes automatically into your local branches, use git pull for this or merge from the origin-branch after doing fetch.

See the man page for full details.

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What is the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?

What are the differences between git pull and git fetch?
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How do I force "git pull" to overwrite local files?

How do I force an overwrite of local files on a git pull? The scenario is the following: A team member is modifying the templates for a website we are working on They are adding some images to the images directory (but forgets to add them under…
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Git fetch remote branch

My colleague and I are working on the same repository. We've branched it into two branches, each technically for different projects, but they have similarities, so we'll sometimes want to commit back to the *master from the branch. However, I have…
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fetch from origin with deleted remote branches?

When I do git fetch origin and origin has a deleted branch, it doesn't seem to update it in my repository. When I do git branch -r it still shows origin/DELETED_BRANCH. How can I fix this?
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The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge, but I don't care

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…
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What is the difference between git pull and git fetch + git rebase?

Another question says that git pull is like a git fetch + git merge. But what is the difference between git pull and git fetch + git rebase?
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Does "git fetch --tags" include "git fetch"?

A nice and simple question - is the function of "git fetch" a strict sub-set of git fetch --tags? I.e. if I run git fetch --tags, is there ever a reason to immediately run git fetch straight afterward? What about git pull and git pull --tags? Same…
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What does FETCH_HEAD in Git mean?

git pull --help says: In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge FETCH_HEAD. What is this FETCH_HEAD and what is actually merged during git pull?
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fetch in git doesn't get all branches

I have cloned a repository, after which somebody else has created a new branch, which I'd like to start working on. I read the manual, and it seems dead straight easy. Strangely it's not working, and all the posts I've found suggest I'm doing the…
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Why does git say "Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files"?

When I try to pull in my project directory in the terminal, I see the following error: harsukh@harsukh-desktop:~/Sites/branch1$ git pull origin master U app/config/app.php U app/config/database.php U app/routes.php Pull is not possible because you…
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Retrieve specific commit from a remote Git repository

Is there any way to retrieve only one specific commit from a remote Git repo without cloning it on my PC? The structure of remote repo is absolutely same as that of mine and hence there won't be any conflicts but I have no idea how to do this and I…
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Is it possible to pull just one file in Git?

I am working on a Git branch that has some broken tests, and I would like to pull (merge changes, not just overwrite) these tests from another branch where they are already fixed. I know I can do git pull origin that_other_branch but this will…
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Differences between git remote update and fetch?

Is git remote update the equivalent of git fetch?
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How to handle git gc fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error?

I randomly hit this today while trying to run Git garbage collect: $ git gc fatal: bad object refs/remotes/origin/HEAD error: failed to run repack How do I deal with this?
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How do I fetch a branch on someone else's fork on GitHub?

I've forked from a repo on GitHub. I want to get the code from a branch on another user's fork. Must I clone this user's whole repo to a separate local repo or can I do something like git checkout link_to_the_other_users_branch?
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