cannot see git-fetch result in gitk

I'm still learning my way around git and trying to understand how it
works. So after reading
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/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?

Thanks,
Tilman

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Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany
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Tilman Schmidt [off-list ref] 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.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland

Am 01.12.2007 14:55 schrieb Jakub Narebski:

Did you run just "gitk"? By default gitk displays only current branch,

Thanks, that explains it. It might be a good idea to mention that
in the manpage.

while git-fetch changes remote-tracking branches only. Try 
"gitk --all", or "gitk origin/master ..." enumerating explicitely all
remote branches.

Ok, thanks, will try that next time git-fetch actually finds something
to fetch. ;-)

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Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany
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