git pull calls git fetch with the appropriate parameters before merging the explicitly fetched heads (or if none the remote branch configured for merge) into the current branch. The syntax: git fetch <repository> <ref> where <ref> is just a branch name with no colon is a ‘one shot’ fetch that doesn’t do a standard fetch … Read more
Five possibilities exist to set up a repository for pull from: local filesystem: git clone /path/to/repo or git clone file://path/to/repo. Least work if you have networked filesystem, but not very efficient use of network. (This is almost exactly solution proposed by Joakim Elofsson) HTTP protocols: git clone http://example.com/repo. You need any web server, and you … Read more
I have always relied on the inherent abilities of Git to get me back if a merge fails. To estimate how the merge might occur, you can start like you did with: $ git fetch origin branch # Fetch changes, but don’t merge $ git diff HEAD..origin/branch # Diff your current head to the fetched … Read more
git merge –abort might be what you’re looking for.
stat -c %Y .git/FETCH_HEAD Will give you a unix timestamp of the last modification of that file. Git writes the FETCH_HEAD file every time you pull or fetch, even if there was nothing to pull.
You can reset your branch to the state it was in just before the merge if you find the commit it was on then. One way is to use git reflog, it will list all the HEADs you’ve had. I find that git reflog –relative-date is very useful as it shows how long ago each … Read more
You don’t fetch a branch, you fetch an entire remote: git fetch origin git merge origin/an-other-branch
It says bucket-4 pushes to bucket-4 just because the default when pushing a branch is to push it to one with a matching name on the remote. (Note that this is still the default, even if the local branch is tracking a remote-tracking branch and the remote-tracking branch corresponds to a branch with a different … Read more
Try git fetch –dry-run The manual (git help fetch) says: –dry-run Show what would be done, without making any changes.
Well, I found this useful forum post: https://web.archive.org/web/20200211180001/http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/No-quot-pull-quot-in-git-gui-td1121058.html A fetch and merge should be done. It seems you need to go to “Remote” menu, then “Fetch from” option , in my case origin, and then go to “Merge Menu” and then “Local Merge…”.