19851 views A picture is worth a thousand words! The Animated Git series continues. The series introduces core Git concepts with pictures and animations. If you missed it, watch and read : Part 1 – Gain precise control over your next commit Part 2 – Work offline on your own local repository Part 3 – Remember the latest synced version and push your local changes This fourth part presents how divergent branches can appear in your repository. You’ll better understand why they are called “branches”. Work in parallel As you learned in Part 2, you commit locally. As a result, two team members can create commits on top of origin/master in parallel (read Part 3 to learn more about this branch): Bob is free to push his work to the team’s repository: Fetch from the remote repository Alice is now out of sync with the team’s repository and, as a result, is unable to push her work. She must re-synchronize her local repository by fetching the shared repository (called “origin”, as explained in Part 3) : $ git fetch origin As you can see, Alice’s master and origin/master branches have diverged, like two branches of a tree: We recommend the following articles to learn more about branches and fetching a remote repository: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/syncing/git-fetch https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/using-branches/git-branch https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Remote-Branches A new animated series will start soon. Follow us on @WakandaSoft to catch it! Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
One Comment on “Animated Git #4: Understand How Divergent Branches Appear After Fetching a Remote Repository” Joe says: February 17, 2017 at 1:51 am This is fantastic. Keep it up! Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply