From the "git-pull" man page: > Incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current branch. In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for gi

From the "git-pull" man page: > Incorporates changes from a remote repository into the current branch. In its default mode, git pull is shorthand for git fetch followed by git merge FETCH_HEAD. > More precisely, git pull runs git fetch with the given parameters and calls git merge to merge the retrieved branch heads into the current branch. With --rebase, it runs git rebase instead of git merge.