Pulling from remotes

Intermediate Git

George Boorman

Curriculum Manager, DataCamp

Remote vs. local

local and remote branches where the remote branch has more files and subdirectories

Collaborating on Git projects

data synchronizing between five local branches and the remote branch

Fetching from a remote

Fetch from the origin remote

git fetch origin

Fetch all remote branches
Might create new local branches if they only existed in the remote
Doesn't merge the remote's contents into local repo

Fetching a remote branch

Fetch only from the origin remote's main branch

git fetch origin main

From https://github.com/datacamp/project
 * branch                main     -> FETCH_HEAD

Synchronizing content

Merge origin remote's default branch (main) into the local repo's current branch

git merge origin

Updating 9dcf4e5..887da2d
Fast-forward
 tests/tests.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 README.md     | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions (+)

Pulling from a remote

Local and remote synchronization is a common workflow
Git simplifies this process for us!
Fetch and merge from the remote's default (main) into the local repo's current branch

git pull origin

Pulling a remote branch

Pull from the origin remote's dev branch

git pull origin dev

Still merges into the local branch we are located in!

Git pull output

From https://github.com/datacamp/project
 * branch                dev     -> FETCH_HEAD
Updating 9dcf4e5..887da2d
Fast-forward
 tests/tests.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 README.md     | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions (+)

A word of caution

git pull origin

Updating 9dcf4e5..887da2d
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
       README.md
Please commit your changes or stash them before you merge.
Aborting

Important to save locally before pulling from a remote

Let's practice!

Intermediate Git