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Git - Fetch (Remote Repository Sync)

About

A fetch will sync information locally from a remote repository. It will receive missing objects from another repository.

It will mostly

git fetch:

from one or more other remote repositories

remote branche cannot be modify directly, you need to create a tracking branch (ie a local branch that tracks the remote branch head)

FETCH_HEAD

The last commit (head) fetched for all branches are in the FETCH_HEAD file located a git_dir/FETCH_HEAD 1)