git fetch doesn't update my local repository

Question

What I want:

Update all news commits from server with my local repository in all branch but do not merge any branch (just join the history lines).

I am trying this command

git fetch --force --progress --verbose  name@host:/path/to/repository.git  

I thought it will work fine, because it show:

From host:/path/to/repository   * branch            HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD 

But, what means this output? If I see the log, it wasn't update. If I do a clone from server, all new commits are there. So... The command not work. Then I try with a branch that exist in server but not in my local repository

git fetch --force --progress --verbose  name@host:/path/to/repository.git my_branch 

The result is:

From host:/path/to/repository   * branch            my_branch       -> FETCH_HEAD 

And any success... Even if I not know all branches and my branch was update, I want to fetch this changes and can see in my log.

Any idea to do it work?

Answer 1

When you fetch you get the remote branches, but you still need to merge the changes from the remote branch into your local branch to see those changes.

After fetching, try this:

git log origin/yourbranchname | head git log yourbranchname | head 

Do you see the difference?

Now do:

git checkout origin/yourbranchname -b newbranchname git log newbranchname 

You should see remote changes in the newbranchname.

You can also merge those changes into your branch with

git checkout yourbranchname git merge origin/yourbranchname