how can I do a git pull in the gitg / gitx visual tool?

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Michael Durrant picture Michael Durrant · Sep 4, 2011 · Viewed 24k times · Source

I can do a push using gitg and push my code to the remote master branch but I can't see any option to do a git pull.

I am on Ubuntu 10 and 11

Answer

CharlesB picture CharlesB · Sep 5, 2011

You cannot directly pull from git gui, but given than a pull is a fetch followed by a merge, you can fetch the remote (in the remote menu and fetch from), and then merge the remote branch into yours (Merge menu and Local merge, select tracking branch).

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