Qn about git pull and git fetch

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Hi everyone,

This is my first post to the list. I am a new (few months now) git
user and I use it for source code and notes for my research projects.
I noticed something during the course of my use. If I have a remote
tracking repository, and I do a `git pull origin master', the latest
changes are merged into my currently checked out branch. But the
references to the remote repo are not. So when I fire up gitk like
this, `gitk --all &' I don't see the latest commits for origin/master.
I have to manually run `git fetch origin' or `git remote update
origin' to see the updated commits in gitk.

This is not an inconvenience for me, just a little puzzling since the
man page says git pull runs `git fetch' followed by `git mege'. Just
out of curiosity, is there any reason for this choice?

-- 
Suvayu

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