Does git fetch change local files?

You can do a git fetch at any time to update your remote-tracking branches under refs/remotes// . This operation never changes any of your own local branches under refs/heads , and is safe to do without changing your working copy.

Where is git fetch data stored?

The git fetch command only downloads the metadata associated with a project. The git pull command downloads all files and saves them to your local copy of a repository. git pull will change the code you have stored on your local machine.

Does git fetch delete local branches?

Hence, for fetch mirrors, they can delete local branches. Most clones are not set up as fetch mirrors, though. There were some recent bug fixes for complex mappings, to make sure that Git did not prune a mapped branch in some cases when it should not.

Will git fetch overwrite local changes?

It won’t overwrite charges but may do a merge, a rebase or fail if there are conflicting changes. git fetch does none of these things. git pull will merge with local changes.

What should I do after git fetch?

git merge origin/master should work. Since master is usually a tracking branch, you could also do git pull from that branch and it will do a fetch & merge for you. If you have local changes on your master that aren’t reflected on origin , you might want git rebase origin/master to make sure your commits are ‘on top’.

What does git fetch prune do?

git fetch –prune is the best utility for cleaning outdated branches. It will connect to a shared remote repository remote and fetch all remote branch refs. It will then delete remote refs that are no longer in use on the remote repository.

What is git fetch vs pull?

git fetch is the command that tells your local git to retrieve the latest meta-data info from the original (yet doesn’t do any file transferring. It’s more like just checking to see if there are any changes available). git pull on the other hand does that AND brings (copy) those changes from the remote repository.