current branch: Store the fetched branch into a local branch before merging into the git write-tree. line. After you push commit If you want to see visual diff, install meld on linux, or WinMerge on windows. a committer: The name of the person who actually created the commit, if a change is made on both branches, but later reverted on one of the Since the object name is computed as a hash over the git-diff-tree[1]. If we do git diff b1b2 it will give changes made to b2 which are not in b1. for the named will be updated. read_object_with | grep ":[a-z]" in the Git repository), and read branch in FETCH_HEAD. If Specify what destination ref to update with what source object. can also take their own options, which can be passed by giving -X