I am moving from TortoiseSvn to TortoiseGit. But enountered some unexpected difficulties.
My working paradigm is as simple as:
Why bother to have the 3 syntactically similar commands below?
And Pull and Fetch even share the identical icon. What a user-friendly design!
You can do a git fetch at any time to update your remote-tracking branches under refs/remotes//.
git fetch 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).
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.
