Pull
The process of getting changes from your remote repository to the local one.
Example
Imagine you have 1 local and 1 remote repository, both with [master] on initial commit.
Then, somebody updates the remote repository with [feature1] branch.
In order to retrieve the branch, you first need to make your local repository aware of the branch via fetch:
o "New feature 1" [feature1]
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o "Initial commit" [master][origin/master] o "Initial commit" [master]
(local) (origin)
Then you pull the [feature1] branch to your local repository:
o "New feature 1" [feature1][origin/feature1] o "New feature 1" [feature1]
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o "Initial commit" [master][origin/master] o "Initial commit" [master]
(local) (origin)
Always fetch before you pull!