René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Fetch does not really fetch","articleBody":"As I'm trying to automate some of our git processes, I need to perform 'git fetch' programatically. However the 0.2.3 example does not actually do a fetch..\n\n``` js\nnodegit.Repository\n\n      // Open the specified directory\n        .open(directory).then(function (repo) {\n          _repository = repo;\n          return nodegit.Remote.load(repo, \"origin\");\n          //return repo.getRemote('origin');\n\n        })\n      // Fetch remote\n        .then(function (remote) {\n          remote.connect(0);\n          return remote.download();\n\n          //return remote.fetch(signature);\n        })\n\n      // Retrieve all references\n        .then(function () {\n          return _repository.getReferenceNames(nodegit.Reference.TYPE.ALL);\n        })\n```\n\nAfter this there is a bunch of .then constructions to sort out which branches have been updated, etc... however I notice that nothing is changed/updated after running this fetch sequence. After performing a commandline 'git fetch' things have changed.\n\nI have also tried to npm install the latest checkout from nodegit/master and use the updated example which uses the 'remote shortcut'.\n\n``` js\nvar nodegit = require('../');\nvar path = require('path');\n\nnodegit.Repository.open(path.resolve(__dirname, '../.git')).then(function(repo) {\n  return repo.fetch(\"origin\");\n})\n.done(function() {\n  console.log(\"It worked!\");\n});\n```\n\nBut also this does not actually do a fetch (as in, no refs or files are updated).\n\nI hope I am missing something, either that or this is a bug.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Athaphian","@type":"Person","name":"Athaphian"},"datePublished":"2014-12-04T17:54:49.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/314/nodegit/issues/314"}