Git Pull vs Git Rebase

Question

I m a noob in Git  and trying to learn the difference between git pull vs git rebase  Can someone provide an example when to use which option since I feel that both serve the same purpose

User · Answer

git-pull - Fetch from and integrate with another repository or a local branch GIT PULL

Basically you are pulling remote branch to your local, example:

git pull origin master

Will pull master branch into your local repository

git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head GIT REBASE

This one is putting your local changes on top of changes done remotely by other users. For example:

You have committed some changes on your local branch for example called SOME-FEATURE
Your friend in the meantime was working on other features and he merged his branch into master

Now you want to see his and your changes on your local branch. So then you checkout master branch:

git checkout master

then you can pull:

git pull origin master

and then you go to your branch:

git checkout SOME-FEATURE

and you can do rebase master to get lastest changes from it and put your branch commits on top:

git rebase master

I hope now it's a bit more clear for you.

User · Answer

In a nutshell   - gt  Git Merge  It will simply merge your local changes and remote changes  and that will create another commit history record - gt  Git Rebase  It will put your changes above all new remote changes  and rewrite commit history  so your commit history will be much cleaner than git merge  Rebase is a destructive operation  That means  if you do not apply it correctly  you could lose committed work and or break the consistency of other developer s repositories

User · Answer

git pull and git rebase are not interchangeable  but they are closely connected   git pull fetches the latest changes of the current branch from a remote and applies those changes to your local copy of the branch  Generally this is done by merging  i e  the local changes are merged into the remote changes  So git pull is similar to git fetch  amp  git merge   Rebasing is an alternative to merging  Instead of creating a new commit that combines the two branches  it moves the commits of one of the branches on top of the other    You can pull using rebase instead of merge  git pull --rebase   The local changes you made will be rebased on top of the remote changes  instead of being merged with the remote changes   Atlassian has some excellent documentation on merging vs  rebasing

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