Result of git fetch-CodePudding

I wanted to fetch a remote branch of a project from github. However, I forgot to switch branches and when I ran the command, I was in the main branch on my local computer.

The command I ran was: git fetch https:<access_token>github.com/user/repo.git email

The results were:

remote: Enumerating objects: 23, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (23/23), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 14 (delta 8), reused 14 (delta 8), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (14/14), 2.45 KiB | 93.00 KiB/s, done.
From https://github.com/macumhail/otools
 * branch            email -> FETCH_HEAD

I don't want to merge the "email" branch with main yet. I am a git novice and I'm not sure what I've done. Is there a way to undo the fetch and do I even need to?

Thank you for any ideas.

CodePudding user response：

Not to worry. git fetch has no effect whatever on your local branches! All it does is bring the "remote-tracking" branches up to date. It makes no different what local branch you are "on" at the time you fetch. Fetching is always good. Fetch early and often — keeping in mind, of course, that this is one of the few Git commands that actually networks with your remote.

CodePudding user response：

All is fine.

git fetch https:<access_token>github.com/user/repo.git email

The git fetch command is how we get commits from some other repository, into our own local repository. Commits are why Git exists, and hence are the all-important part, so this is a perfectly reasonable and normal thing to do.

I am a git novice ...

The good part about being a novice is that you won't have a lot of wrong ideas to un-learn.