Update a local branch with the changes from a tracked remote branch

Question

I have a local branch named  my local branch   which tracks a remote branch origin my remote branch   Now  the remote branch has been updated  and I am on the  my local branch  and want to pull in those changes  Should I just do   git pull origin my remote branch my local branch   Is this the correct way

User · Answer

You don t use the   syntax - pull always modifies the currently checked-out branch  Thus   git pull origin my remote branch   while you have my local branch checked out will do what you want   Since you already have the tracking branch set  you don t even need to specify - you could just do     git pull   while you have my local branch checked out  and it will update from the tracked branch

User · Answer

You have set the upstream of that branch  see    quot How do you make an existing git branch track a remote branch  quot  and  quot Git  Why do I need to do --set-upstream-to all the time  quot      git branch -f --track my local branch origin my remote branch   OR  if my local branch is currently checked out     git branch --set-upstream-to my local branch origin my remote branch   git branch -f --track won t work if the branch is checked out  use the second command git branch --set-upstream-to  instead  or you would get  quot fatal  Cannot force update the current branch  quot   That means your branch is already configured with  branch my local branch remote origin branch my local branch merge my remote branch  Git already has all the necessary information  In that case    if you weren t already on my local branch branch  git checkout my local branch    then  git pull  is enough   If you hadn t establish that upstream branch relationship when it came to push your  my local branch   then a simple git push -u origin my local branch my remote branch would have been enough to push and set the upstream branch  After that  for the subsequent pulls pushes  git pull or git push would  again  have been enough

[git] Update a local branch with the changes from a tracked remote branch

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