git annoyances: git fetch does nothing; git pull works?

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:52:51PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> OK, call me a git, but
>   git fetch
> doesn't grab the latest changes, while
>   git pull
> does.  i.e. after git fetch, I can look at a file that's
> listed as changed on the wine-cvs archive, and
> it hasn't been updated; but after git pull, it has been.
> So what good is git fetch?  Is some other command
> needed to actually apply the changes that were fetched?

git rebase origin 

is listed by the GitWine wiki too.

ciao, Marcus