Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> writes: > I'm still learning my way around git and trying to understand how it > works. So after reading > howto/rebase-from-internal-branch.txt > I wanted to try and understand the command sequence > > git fetch origin > git rebase FETCH_HEAD > > by looking at what it does with gitk. But after the first command I do > not see any change at all in gitk. Only after the second one do the > newly fetched objects appear in the gitk display. > > Simple question: why? Did you run just "gitk"? By default gitk displays only current branch, while git-fetch changes remote-tracking branches only. Try "gitk --all", or "gitk origin/master ..." enumerating explicitely all remote branches. -- Jakub Narebski Poland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html