The "git pull" man page states that "git pull --rebase" is exactly equivalent to "git fetch" followed by "git rebase" so I'm not sure why it wouldn't update you

The "git pull" man page states that "git pull --rebase" is exactly equivalent to "git fetch" followed by "git rebase" so I'm not sure why it wouldn't update your remote tracking branch (since that is what "git fetch" does).