A developer is working on a feature branch called new-feature. Another team member has just updated the remote main branch with critical security fixes. The developer needs to update their new-feature branch with these changes from the remote main branch to ensure their code is compatible. Which single Git command will fetch the remote changes and merge them into the developer's current new-feature branch?
The correct command is git pull origin main. This command performs two actions in one step: it runs git fetch to download the new commits from the main branch of the origin remote, and then it runs git merge to integrate those downloaded commits into the current local branch (new-feature).
git fetch origin main is incorrect because it only downloads the updates from the remote main branch into the local remote-tracking branch (origin/main) but does not merge them into the current working branch.
git merge main is incorrect because it would attempt to merge the localmain branch into the current branch. To merge the remote changes, the developer would first need to fetch them and then explicitly merge the remote-tracking branch (e.g., git merge origin/main).
git push origin main is incorrect, as git push is used to upload local commits to a remote repository, not to retrieve them.
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