I've just discovered that you may checkout branches within IntelliJ, without having to open the terminal. My question is: When we use the option to checkout to a certain branch, does it execute a git pull automatically? Or do we have to open the terminal and do it ourselves?

CodePudding user response：

IDE doesn't run git pull automatically after a branch checkout. If you checked out local branch, then you'll need to use either "Update action" (blue arrow in top right corner of IDE window) or go to Git | Pull.

Please see for more info: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/sync-with-a-remote-repository.html

Also there is a Feature Plugin available for IDE, it can help you to learn how to work with features available in IDE: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/guide/tutorials/working-with-feature-trainer/ide-feature-trainer-overview/

CodePudding user response：

In git we can work with multiple branches at a time, if the git pull was called automatically for a branch it will mess up other branches, and we are required to sort out the conflicts too while doing a git pull. These are the reasons I personally feel git pull can't be automated.