pull remote branch without merge

Question

I've created a branch b1 and I made some changes on it and I push it to the remote repository:

git branch b1 git checkout b1 git add newfile.txt git commit -m "adding a new file" git push origin b1 

On an other machine which is connected to the remote repository, I tried to pull the branch without merge it with master:

$git branch *master $git pull origin b1 remote: Counting objects: 4, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done. remote: Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done. From sl*******02:/opt/git/projet1  * branch            b1    -> FETCH_HEAD Updating fca3b48..1d96ceb Fast-forward  newfile.txt |    1 +  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)  create mode 100644 newfile.txt  $git branch *master 

what I expected:

$git branch *master b1 

Answer 1

You can use git fetch origin b1 to only fetch remote branch without merge.

See : https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch

Basically git pull is a shortcut to git fetch && git merge

Merge execute because you was on master branch, and not your local b1 branch.