It's just a preference thing. If I'm sitting down to write a new feature I can do the git fetch origin and go directly to a branch, but if I'm investigating an

It's just a preference thing. If I'm sitting down to write a new feature I can do the git fetch origin and go directly to a branch, but if I'm investigating an issue, I'll often open that develop/master branch directly, find the problem, do a pull to make sure there are no changes that got checked in, then "git checkout -b". Alternately if I'm helping other developers, I'm on their branch a lot, and it basically becomes a "push your changes and I'll take a look" and I just open that folder and git pull. I think I use more git pull now than I did originally, because I'm working on less of my own code.