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Git Pull vs Git fetch Which one is Preferable?

I know the difference between git pull and git fetch .

but i want to know, Which one is Preferable?

because git pull doing merge automatically without my knowledge. thats the different i found. git fetch wont do that. is there anything else?

Solution

  • Contrary to the above comments, git pull and git fetch are not completely different commands. Rather, doing a git pull on a given branch is the same as doing a git fetch followed by either merging or rebasing the current branch on its remote counterpart which was just updated.

    The utility of doing a git pull is that often the reason we fetch is to update a local branch with the version on the remote. So it is a bit of a convenience. We can always do fetch followed by merge separately.