GIT tip: fast-forward local branch to the head of its remote tracking branch without checking it out

by Oliver 6. February 2014 00:23

Not much else to say than what's mentioned in the title. I come across the need to do so mostly before deployments from my machine where I want to update my local master branch to the HEAD of the remote master branch. Here's how to do that:

        1: git fetch origin master:master

Thank you stackoverflow and Cupcake!

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