I think an important aspect to "getting" git is realizing and accepting that git has several somewhat redundant commands and usually two or more ways to accompl

I think an important aspect to "getting" git is realizing and accepting that git has several somewhat redundant commands and usually two or more ways to accomplish something. Personally I always do "git remote update -p" to synchronize all my remotes and then explicitly merge or rebase depending on what I'm trying to do.