Step 0

To be able to fetch from a remote repository, you need its URL.

With Bitbucket, you can get the URL of your remote repository from Actions → Clone:

Step 1

To start the Fetch wizard, right-click the selected project and go to Team → Remote → Fetch From ...:

Step 2

In the opened window, insert the URL of the remote repository you want to fetch from into the URI field:

Step 3

The GIT plug-in will automatically retrieve the necessary information like the host, repository path, user, and password from the inserted URL (details can be found here):

Once you have already fetched from the repository (or pushed to it), you'll be able to select it from the drop-down list (after pressing Ctrl+Space)or type the URL in directly :

Once you have configured Fetch from the GIT Repositories view, you will be able to select it from  the drop-down list of Configured remote repositories:

Step 4

After you press Next, you get to the Fetch Ref Specifications window where you configure your fetch:

Fetch Ref Specifications window is described below in more detail.

Step 5

Once your fetch was configured, press Finish to start fetching:

Step 6

Before the fetch is complete, you'll get the Fetch results window where you will see what is fetched from the remote repository

For ref updates, you get the details of the fetched changes (as above);

for refs which are deleted, you get [deleted]:

for refs which not exist yet, you get [new branch] or [new tag]:

for refs which contain now updates, you get [up to date]:

Step 7

Now all your changes were fetched from the remote repository.

To go on working with your projects, you have to merge or rebase your branches and import the projects to your workspace:

Add create/update specification

specifies what local branch you want to map with what remote branch:

Source and destination branches are chosen among the existing ones from the drop-down lists:

Add Spec button sends the newly defined specification to the list of Specifications for fetch:

Add predefined specification

incorporates predefined specifications:

Add All Branches Spec declares that you want to map your local branch names to the same branch names on the repository you are pushing to.

Add All Tags Spec declares that you want to map your local tags one-by-one to the same tags on the repository you are pushing to.

Specifications for fetch

contains all the mappings to be fetched:

By default, in the case of a conflict you'll get the opportunity to solve it manually.

If you check the Force update box for a specification

or press Force Update All Specs

you declare that in the case of the conflict new commits with overwrite the previous ones.

By pressing Remove All Specs

or clicking the dustbin icon

you'll remove the newly created specifications from the Specifications for fetch list (all of them or one by one):

Annotated tags fetching strategy

specifies what the Fetch wizard will do to annotated tags

Step 1

To fetch from upstream, right-click the selected project and go to Team → Fetch from Upstream:

Step 2

Wait until the fetching procedure is over:

Step 3

Check Fetch results:

Step 4

Now all your changes were fetched from the remote repository.

To go on working with your projects, you have to merge or rebase your branches and import the projects to your workspace (as in Step 7 ↑ ).

Step 1

Open the GIT perspective as described here.

Step 2

Go to Remotes → origin and choose fetch specification:

Step 3

Right-click the fetch specifications and select Fetch:

Step 4

Wait until the fetching procedure is over:

Step 5

Check Fetch results:

Step 6

Now all your changes were fetched from the remote repository.

To go on working with your projects, you have to merge or rebase your branches and import the projects to your workspace (as in Step 7 ↑ ).