Reading stuff like this makes me lose all hope to ever really understand (and being able to tame) git: > Under the covers, the pull command runs git merge FETC

Reading stuff like this makes me lose all hope to ever really understand (and being able to tame) git: > Under the covers, the pull command runs git merge FETCH_HEAD. This reads FETCH_HEAD, which shows that the master branch on the beta repository was the most recently fetched branch. It gets the commit object that alpha’s record of beta’s master is pointing at. This is the second commit. The master branch on alpha is pointing at the first commit, which is the ancestor of the second commit.