difference between git merge origin/master and git pull

Question

I\'m working on a local branch \"BDD-local\" and would like to get the changes from other developers. The other developers are using their own branch and once they are happ

Answer 1

git pull is the same as git fetch + git merge

The command

git pull  

is really just the same as

git fetch 
git merge /

So there is no practical difference between

git pull origin master

and

git fetch origin
git merge origin/master

Documentation

As stated in the official Linux Kernel git pull documentation:

In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge FETCH_HEAD.

More precisely, git pull runs git fetch with the given parameters and calls git merge to merge the retrieved branch heads into the current branch.

Recommended Reading

• Pro Git § 2.5 Git Basics - Working with Remotes - Fetching and Pulling from Your Remotes.