How to resolve when master is behind origin/master and develop branches

[Ted Singh]

New to git and SourceTree, but I tried using GitFlow and I now see that master (local?) says that it is 11 behind origin/master and develop. How do I sync up everything or do I need to?

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I freely admit that I need to learn git - but any help to clear things up is appreciated.

[Johannes Kilian]

That's a typical situation in development, having a colleague pushing some changes to the remote repository since you have cloned the repository - so your local repository is now "behind" the remote repository (that means: the remote repository (named "origin") is a few commits ahead your local repository)

The command you need is "git pull" (or "git fetch") - which pulls the commits from the remote repository into your local repository ...

• git fetch: fetches the changes into your local repository only; you have to merge the changes by a subsequent "git merge".
• git pull: fetches the changes, merges them and commits the changes (if there are no conflicts during merge) into your local repository. (That's the method I would recommend for beginners)

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[Ted Singh]

Thanks for the excellent answer - my problem resolved - and I learned something too!