What's the advantage of using git fetch?
<p>When using git, what's the advantage of being able to fetch without necessarily merging/rebasing ? From this <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/7104747/126978">answer</a>, I see that </p>

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  <p>This is particularly useful if you need to keep your repository up to date, but are working on something that might break if you update your files.</p>
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<p>Do frequent fetches really make future merge less complicated or less likely to have conflicts ? </p>