git fetch and pull tutorial

In this tutorial I show how to use git fetch and pull and also how to rebase a local branch on top of the (updated) master.

Here is my .gitconfig:

https://gist.github.com/735587

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Science & Technology

[askPrins]

Thanks alot really.

Notes! I wish you did not use aliases e.g. git ci /git co. It is not clear for everybody what they are mapped to, since the people who want to learn here are Newbies, right? :)

[ocert]

@askPrins You are right. Youtube doesn't allow me to post a link to my .gitconfig here in the comment...

And you are right, that in the video I should have been using the long commands, it is now clear.

[ocert]

@ocert I have put the link into the video description.

[Perceptes]

@askPrins Not sure what you mean by "repo download." `git fetch` downloads all the commits on the remote repository that your local repository doesn't have yet - it's not the same thing as cherry picking. `git pull` is similar to `git fetch` - it downloads all the commits you don't have, but also attempts to merge the new commits it gets for your current branch into your local one. `git fetch` simply downloads them and leaves you to deal with merging manually.

[askPrins]

Isn't better to do repo download instead of git fetch github? I suppose that git fetch is the same as cherry-pick right?