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Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored?

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Mar 3, 2008, 13:14 UTC
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"Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> writes:
> What is still not clear to me is where git is storing
> the objects downloaded during a git fetch operation.

git fetch downloads the objects to the object database, i.e. .git/objects/, usualy as a pack.

Now, just "having" the objects locally doesn't change much, an object starts being really interesting if you have a reference (typically, a branch) pointing to it. "git fetch" will update the remote references (for example, origin/master), but won't touch the working tree, and won't do any merge, fast-forward or not, to a local branch. So, most likely, "git fetch" will be followed by either a merge or a rebase.

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Matthieu
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