I'm having some serious issues with git, and couldn't find any solutions online. I'm a new user, so I may be doing something wrong...
I have a repository hosted on Github, and someone on my team just pushed a new commit. Using Git GUI on windows, I attempted to fetch the new commit from Github. Git said that the fetch was a success, but no changes were found/downloaded.
I attempted to create a new remote to Github and used that instead. (e.g. git@github.com:MyUserName/MyProject). When fetching from this remote, Git says success and lists every branch as being newly updated. However, none of the branches get downloaded. If I run fetch again, the same message is displayed.
I had this same problem a couple days ago with the same repository. I 'fixed' it by deleting my local repository and cloning the repo from Github. But apparently it was only a temporary fix, as the problem is back again.
Any guidance is much appreciated!
SOLVED: You were right, I needed to merge after fetching the changes. (Sadly, Git GUI does not allow for pulling) I'm assuming that Git GUI used to do this automatically, but perhaps I accidentally changed the options at some point. Thanks for all the information!