I never really cared about the Fetch and Pull commands.
I guess the pattern was:
- Go into Jira and create a ticket off of the develop branch. (for example a branch named 6255-AddTopic)
- Goto Visual Studio (or Visual Studio Code) and perform the Pull command (or the Fetch command - since they are next to each other)
- Changed branch to origin/6255-AddTopic
But then there was a update to Visual Studio and when you are on the Develop branch, the Pull function is disabled.
Here’s what I feel, based on what my current work pattern is:
- Fetch - pulls down meta data (server based new branching as well as the knowlege of knowing which branches have been changed)
- Pull - Might do a fetch, but then pulls down changes of the branch you are working on.
In playing I find that the develop branch on my computer is getting more and more outdated. Then I start getting conflicts. Creating the branch on the server side is a bit safer.
But I also found using the merge function to merge the origin/develop branch to the local develop branch does bring the local develop branch up to date.