This is what our demo folder “pull-tst” on Windows system contains after running pull command:īack to our question, why we used “fetch” and “commit” terms while talking about pull command. Similarly, you may go to the local active folder where you started Git Bash and see the local repo. You can see, it is showing all four files as in our remote repository in above graphic. One is for the git pull command and the other displays the files in the master branch by using $ ls command. In the graphic, you can see two commands’ output.

The Git Bash should display messages like this: This command should download all files from the remote repo to the local. (For learning more about how to open Git Bash and set path, visit this tutorial)Īfter adding the origin, let us run the git pull command for downloading the remote repo: Use this command to add the origin to our newly created remote repository:Ĭhange the URL if you are using some other repo. I will explain this after completing the pulling command below.įor downloading the remote repo content, run the Git pull command as follows. While our topic is Git pull, why I used two other command names in above heading? This is because the pull Git command is the combination of fetch and merge commands. Our pull operation shows some “substance” after we download in our local repository, I have added a few files in the master branch as shown below. master and as I created the repository with a “README” so it also contains this file. I have created a new repo with the name of tst-pull-2 for our demo.īy default, it contains one branch i.e. This is simple and straight forward – go to Github website, create an account (if you have not already) and you will lead to creating a new repository. In this section, I will show you a step by step for creating an online repository (on Github), adding files and then by using the pull command on Git Bash, we will fetch and download the branch in our local repository – so keep reading. If you are a beginner then this guide is particularly for you. The screenshot below shows current set URLs on Github on my Git Bash:Ī step by step guide for creating and pulling a remote branch If you have not set remote repo or unsure, use this command to check what the current repo is set in Git Bash by this command: The command should fetch content from the set remote repository into the local repo. Before explaining what is Git pull command and how it works, let me show you a simple command that pulls a remote branch from the Github repository to the local repo.

Git pull origin master from remote