git checkout tag git pull fails in branch

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I have cloned a git repository and then checked out a tag     git checkout 2 4 33 -b my branch   This is OK  but when I try to run git pull in my branch  git spits out this error       There is no tracking information for the current branch  Please   specify which branch you want to merge with  See git-pull 1  for   details  git pull  lt remote gt   lt branch gt        If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so   with   git branch --set-upstream new origin  lt branch gt     I want git pull to only update the master branch and leave my current branch alone  it s a tag anyway   Is something like this possible   The reason I need this is that I have a automatic script which always git pulls the repository and of course fails because of the error above

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alesko   it is not possible to only do only git pull after checkout my branch to update master branch only  Because git pull will also merge to the current branch -  in your scenario to the my branch   Simon  that will do also the push  why is that     git branch -u origin master Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin    and acording to docs   -u  lt upstream gt    Set up  lt branchname gt  s tracking information so  lt upstream gt  is considered      lt branchname gt  s upstream branch  If no  lt branchname gt  is specified      then it defaults to the current branch

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You could specify what branch you want to pull   git pull origin master   Or you could set it up so that your local master branch tracks github master branch as an upstream   git branch --set-upstream-to origin master master git pull   This branch tracking is set up for you automatically when you clone a repository  for the default branch only   but if you add a remote to an existing repository you have to set up the tracking yourself  Thankfully  the advice given by git makes that pretty easy to remember how to do   --set-upstream is deprecated in git 1 9 x  apparently   Going forward you d want to use something like   git branch -u origin master   assuming you ve checked out master already  If not   git branch -u origin master master will work

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You need to set up your tracking  upstream  for the current branch  git branch --set-upstream master origin master   Is already deprecated instead of that you can use --track flag  git branch --track master origin master   I also like the doc reference that  casey notice   -u  lt upstream gt    Set up  lt branchname gt  s tracking information so  lt upstream gt  is considered      lt branchname gt  s upstream branch  If no  lt branchname gt  is specified      then it defaults to the current branch

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I had the same problem and fixed it with this command     git push -u origin master   From the help file the -u basically sets the default for pulls   -u  --set-upstream     For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed  add    upstream  tracking  reference  used by argument-less git-pull 1  and   other commands  For more information  see branch  lt name gt  merge in    git-config 1

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Try this  git checkout master  git pull origin master

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Edit  For newer versions of Git  --set-upstream master has been deprecated  you should use --set-upstream-to instead   git branch --set-upstream-to origin master master     As it prompted  you can just run   git branch --set-upstream master origin master   After that  you can simply run git pull to update your code

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What worked for me was  git branch --set-upstream-to origin master When I did a pull again I only got the updates from master and the warning went away

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Try these commands   git pull origin master git push -u origin master

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First  make sure you are on the right branch  Then  one time only      git branch --track   After that this works again   git pull

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In order to just download updates   git fetch origin master   However  this just updates a reference called origin master  The best way to update your local master would be the checkout merge mentioned in another comment  If you can guarantee that your local master has not diverged from the main trunk that origin master is on  you could use git update-ref to map your current master to the new point  but that s probably not the best solution to be using on a regular basis

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You might have multiple branch  And your current branch didn t set its upstream in remote   Steps to fix this   git checkout branch name git branch --set-upstream-to origin remote branch name local branch name   e g      this set upstream of local branch develop to remote branch  origin develop  git branch --set-upstream-to origin develop develop   After doing this  when you do git pull  it pull from specified branch

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This command is deprecated  git branch --set-upstream master origin master  So  when trying to set up tracking  this is the command that worked for me   git branch --set-upstream-to origin master master

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Switch back to the master branch using    git checkout master   and then run the git pull operation    git pull origin master   Afterwards  you can switch back to your my branch again

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If like me you need to do this all the time  you can set up an alias to do it automatically by adding the following to your  gitconfig file    alias      set-upstream    git branch --set-upstream-to origin  git symbolic-ref --short HEAD    When you see the message There is no tracking information     just run git set-upstream  then git push again   Thanks to https   zarino co uk post git-set-upstream

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