What is the difference between git fetch and git pull

Question

When should we use and what is the main difference between them??

Answer 1

Hii @kartik,

The main difference between git fetch and git pull is:

• If you do a git fetch it will just fetch all the changes in the remote repository (Github) and move the origin/master pointer to HEAD. Meanwhile your local branch master will keep pointing to where it has.
• If you do a git pull, it will do basically fetch (as explained previously) and merge any new changes to your master branch and move the pointer to HEAD.

So, git pull=git fetch + merge.

Answer 2

Hii..

I HOPE BELOW ANSWER  MAY HELP YOU-

In the simplest terms, Git pull does a git fetch followed by a git merge.

You can do a git fetch at any time to update your remote-tracking branches under refs/remotes/<remote>/.

This operation never changes any of your own local branches under refs/heads, and is safe to do without changing your working copy. I have even heard of people running git fetch periodically in a cron job in the background (although I wouldn't recommend doing this).

A git pull is what you would do to bring a local branch up-to-date with its remote version, while also updating your other remote-tracking branches.

From the Git documentation for git pull:

In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge 

FETCH_HEAD.

Regards

 SRI