origin and master are completely arbitrary too... `git pull remote_repository_name branch_name` is the generic way to look at it instead of some magic incantat

origin and master are completely arbitrary too... `git pull remote_repository_name branch_name` is the generic way to look at it instead of some magic incantation. I like to call origin "upstream" to differentiate them. and then git pull is another way to think of git fetch and git merge as one command roughly.