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can then be copied alongside and modified as appropriate. This second, modified
file is usually ignored to prevent accidentally committing it.
+[[fetching-and-pulling]]
+How do I know if I want to do a fetch or a pull?::
+ A fetch stores a copy of the latest changes from the remote
+ repository, without modifying the working tree or current branch.
+ You can then at your leisure inspect, merge, rebase on top of, or
+ ignore the upstream changes. A pull consists of a fetch followed
+ immediately by either a merge or rebase. See linkgit:git-pull[1].
+
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