When you are working in your development or test project, you can pull changes that were posted to the remote central repository and update your local working copy. You can then proceed with your development or testing tasks.
When working with your production project, you typically pull a set of changes posted to the central repository as a particular release or milestone. For easy identification, these releases or milestones can be classified as tags.
Pulling and Merging Changes
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Right-click on the project in the project Explorer.
The context menu opens.
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Select Version Control > Pull or Fetch from Remote.
A summary dialog box opens.
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Select Pull to proceed with the requested action.
When you click Pull, the Executing status message shows what is being copied from the remote central repository to the project's local Git repository:
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Select OK to close the message window.
Fetching Changes and Tags
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Right-click on the project in the project Explorer.
The context menu opens.
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Select Version Control > Pull or Fetch from Remote.
A summary dialog box opens.
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Select Fetch to proceed with the requested action. If you intend to use tags for Git checkout functionality, select the Tags check box.
Upon completion, the status message displays everything that has been copied from the remote central repository to the project's local Git repository:
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Select OK to close the message window.