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Pull

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/pʊl/verbCore term

In software engineering, pull means: To download the latest changes from a remote repository and merge them into your local copy, so your code is up to date with your team's.

In Turkish: çekmek, güncel kodu almak, uzak depodan almak

How it is used

The opposite of push. People say 'pull the latest changes', 'pull from main' or just 'pull first' before starting work. In Git, a pull is a fetch followed by a merge, or by a rebase if you use --rebase.

Example sentences

  1. Pull the latest changes from main before you start your new branch.

  2. I pulled this morning and now the project doesn't compile.

Common collocations

  • pull the latest changes
  • pull from main
  • pull and rebase
  • git pull
  • pushTo send your local commits to a shared remote repository, so that other people and automated systems can see them.
  • mergeTo combine the changes from one branch into another, so that both sets of work end up in the same code.
  • repositoryA storage place for a project's code and its full history of changes, usually managed with Git and often hosted online.
  • merge conflictA situation where Git cannot combine two branches automatically because both changed the same lines, so a person has to choose the right version.

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