From 927d47cd888064de7c8e35ab824e10a1ce0f8cea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillem Poy <guillem.poy@galtea.ai>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:31:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: fetch before merging in Update from Default Branch

Without a fetch, the operation compared against the stale local ref for
the default branch, causing it to incorrectly report "already up to
date" when remote had unpulled commits.

Fixes pol-rivero/github-desktop-plus#110

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 app/src/ui/app.tsx | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/src/ui/app.tsx b/app/src/ui/app.tsx
index b4491cf1e08..a40d4fb4748 100644
--- a/app/src/ui/app.tsx
+++ b/app/src/ui/app.tsx
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ export class App extends React.Component<IAppProps, IAppState> {
     // Disable autoupdates so that the app doesn't revert to the desktop/desktop upstream whenever there is an update.
   }
 
-  private updateBranchWithContributionTargetBranch() {
+  private async updateBranchWithContributionTargetBranch() {
     const { selectedState } = this.state
     if (
       selectedState == null ||
@@ -659,6 +659,8 @@ export class App extends React.Component<IAppProps, IAppState> {
       return
     }
 
+    await this.props.dispatcher.fetch(repository, FetchType.UserInitiatedTask)
+
     this.props.dispatcher.initializeMergeOperation(
       repository,
       false,