Re: cannot see git-fetch result in gitk

[Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>]

Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> 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.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland