I have a branch of a public repository and I am trying to update my branch with the current commits from the original repository: $ git fetch <remote> remote: Counting objects: 24, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done. remote: Total 20 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0) Unpacking objects: 100% (20/20), done. From git://github.com/path_to/repo 9b70165..22127d0 master -> $/master $ git