From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:14:28 GMT
Subject: Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored?
Message-ID: <vpqskz82bm3.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <4d8e3fd30803030440s7239c83cj8bf69401dd76bad@mail.gmail.com>

"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.

-- 
Matthieu