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Discussion on: How to update your forked repository on GitHub?

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Saksham Singh Malhotra

This has been by far the most confusing topic for me, when it comes to Github. Thanks a lot for clarifying.
Now, I'm trying to figure out the difference between "git pull" and "git fetch upstream".

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Dhruv Mehta

Well I am glad that my article helped you.

And your doubt is legit. Often times many of us get confused between "git pull" and "git fetch". The basic and simple difference between the two is that "git fetch" only checks for changes in your repository and "git pull" checks for the changes and then merges it to the repository.