why is fetch unloved

[David Demelier]

Le 02/11/2018 à 21:20, Uwe Brauer a écrit :
> Well, I agree in principle, but on the other hand, if you use mercurial
> not for a software project, but for document sharing, you may find
> users, who are either unwilling or unable to really learn mercurial. I
> recently had several issues with my collaborators, because they pulled
> but forgot to merge and couldn't push. For these users, I think fetch is
> a great help, besides (no flamewar intended), but doesn't git do
> precisely this, that is:
> 
> Isn't  «git pull»  basically a «hg fetch»?

I usually do `hg pull -u` when I want to retrieve changes and update 
immediately. Even though this is not the responsability of pull, it's 
still handy.

Regards,

-- 
David