You could specify what branch you want to pull: Or you could set it up so that your local master branch tracks github master branch as an upstream: This branch tracking is set up for you automatically when you clone a repository (for the default branch only), but if you add a remote to an … Read more
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 … Read more
From Git Documentation: Incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current branch. In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge FETCH_HEAD As to your question about: WHY Why is Git creating a MERGE commit: That is the default behavior of git pull. There are lots of explanation of this behavior … Read more
What is currently happening is, that you have a certain set of files, which you have tried merging earlier, but they threw up merge conflicts. Ideally, if one gets a merge conflict, he should resolve them manually, and commit the changes using git add file.name && git commit -m “removed merge conflicts”. Now, another user has … Read more
Alright with the help of the other two answers I’ve come up with a direct solution:
What is currently happening is, that you have a certain set of files, which you have tried merging earlier, but they threw up merge conflicts. Ideally, if one gets a merge conflict, he should resolve them manually, and commit the changes using git add file.name && git commit -m “removed merge conflicts”. Now, another user has … Read more
Alright with the help of the other two answers I’ve come up with a direct solution:
⚠ Important: If you have any local changes, they will be lost. With or without –hard option, any local commits that haven’t been pushed will be lost.[*] If you have any files that are not tracked by Git (e.g. uploaded user content), these files will not be affected. First, run a fetch to update all origin/<branch> refs to latest: Backup your … Read more
Really the ideal way to do this is to not use pull at all, but instead fetch and reset: (Altering master to whatever branch you want to be following.) pull is designed around merging changes together in some way, whereas reset is designed around simply making your local copy match a specific commit. You may want to consider slightly different options to clean depending on your system’s … Read more
⚠ Important: If you have any local changes, they will be lost. With or without –hard option, any local commits that haven’t been pushed will be lost.[*] If you have any files that are not tracked by Git (e.g. uploaded user content), these files will not be affected. First, run a fetch to update all origin/<branch> refs to latest: Backup your … Read more