Is git remote update the equivalent of git fetch?
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A:
Yes and no. git remote update fetches from all remotes, not just one.
Without looking at the code to see if remote update is just a shell script (possible) it, basically, runs fetch for each remote. git fetch can be much more granular.
xenoterracide
2009-12-06 20:29:21
You can configure which remotes to fetch when running `git remote update`, see git-remote manpage.
Jakub Narębski
2009-12-07 00:56:23
Incidentally, `git remote` is not a shell script, but it spawns `git fetch` during a `remote update`.
mipadi
2009-12-07 20:13:37