Re: git fetch: where are the downloaded objects stored?

"Paolo Ciarrocchi" [off-list ref] writes:

What is still not clear to me is where git is storing
the objects downloaded during a git fetch operation.

git fetch downloads the objects to the object database, i.e.
.git/objects/, usualy as a pack.

Now, just "having" the objects locally doesn't change much, an object
starts being really interesting if you have a reference (typically, a
branch) pointing to it. "git fetch" will update the remote references
(for example, origin/master), but won't touch the working tree, and
won't do any merge, fast-forward or not, to a local branch. So, most
likely, "git fetch" will be followed by either a merge or a rebase.

-- 
Matthieu