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

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] wrote:

"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.

Ok, thanks.

 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.

Yes, your explanation perfectly match my understanding.

I was, and I'm still, confused by the following sentence in the git merge
documentation:
"A merge is always between the current HEAD and one or more remote
branch heads"

If I think to the following scenario:

 git fetch
 git diff (to look at what I downloaded via git fetch)
 gir merge

I don't see a merge between the current HEAD and a _remote_ branch.

Ciao,
-- 
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/