What is the difference between 'git pull' and 'git fetch'?

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What are the differences between git pull and git fetch?

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In the simplest terms, git pull does a git fetch followed by a git merge.

You can do a git fetch at any time to update your remote-tracking branches under refs/remotes/<remote>/

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