I've got a project checked locally from GitHub, and that remote repository has since had changes made to it. What's the correct command to update my local copy with the latest changes?
Probably:
was: git pull origin master
now: git pull origin main
This should work for every default repo:
git pull origin master
If your default branch is different than master, you will need to specify the branch name:
git pull origin my_default_branch_name
git fetch [remotename]
However you'll need to merge any changes into your local branches. If you're on a branch that's tracking a remote branch on Github, then
git pull
will first do a fetch, and then merge in the tracked branch
git fetch method, you'll also want to fetch tags with git fetch -t. If you're satisfied with the changes (git log HEAD..FETCH_HEAD), you can then merge them in with git merge FETCH_HEAD.
This question is very general and there are a couple of assumptions I'll make to simplify it a bit. We'll assume that you want to update your master branch.
If you haven't made any changes locally, you can use git pull to bring down any new commits and add them to your master.
git pull origin master
If you have made changes, and you want to avoid adding a new merge commit, use git pull --rebase.
git pull --rebase origin master
git pull --rebase will work even if you haven't made changes and is probably your best call.
With an already-set origin master, you just have to use the below command -
git pull "https://github.com/yourUserName/yourRepo.git"
Complete Workflow for check out a branch and pull changes from master
Pull all remote branches
git pull --all
List all branches now
git branch -a
Download your branch
git checkout -b
Shows current branch. Must show <feature branch> with * In front of it
git branch
Checkout changes from master to current branch
git pull origin master
OR checkout any other <feature branch> into current branch
git pull origin
To pull from the default branch, new repositories should use the command:
git pull origin main
Github changed naming convention of default branch from master to main in 2020. https://github.com/github/renaming
After Git Clone, if want to get the remote branches use
git fetch --all
Then checkout to the branch you want
git checkout the-branch-you-need
Use this to update your local repo with the updated one in remote repo like Gitlab, Github, etc.
git pull origin master
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