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pkfox20-Mar-20 5:20
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Marc Clifton20-Mar-20 2:00
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A very short and understandable description of the difference between pull, fetch, and sync:

TortoiseGit: What's the difference between "Git Sync", "Fetch" and "Pull"? - Stack Overflow[^]

(Ignore the fact that this is for TortoiseGit - the concepts are the same.)

Quote:
Git pull is a git fetch followed by git merge
Git fetch fetches info about remote repositories
Git sync does everything in one command meaning pull and push


The link above includes "read more" links for further reading.

And as others have said, cloning is used only when the repo doesn't already exist on the machine.

I prefer pull rather than sync because I want to push in a controlled manner -- only when my code compiles and is tested. There are many times when I have my code with compiler errors or it's in a "work in progress" state, so I'm not ready to push it up, as this will probably break other people's stuff. However, sometimes I do need to pull down other people's stuff while I'm working on my own.

If I want other people to see my "work in progress", I'll create a local branch for my changes, then push that branch. That way, I'm not messing up the master and other branches (like qa, test, etc.)

Similarly, if someone has a special branch that I want to look at, I'll do a fetch to see that branch in the list of repo branches, then do a "check out" of that branch to my local machine.

That was probably TMI - I got carried away. Wink | ;)

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