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by EdwardDiego 4654 days ago
> the subtle differences between fetch and pull

While I agree with some of your criticisms, as the resident 'Git guy', I've found no difficulty in explaining to people that pull is a convenience alias for 'fetch followed by merge'.

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True, but to understand that you also need to understand what fetch and merge do respectively. Not so easy for the profane/beginner. You're correct that this one is a bit of dishonesty on my part though :)
Yep, that's true. I think I've nearly taught our testers the difference. :D