Your configuration specifies to merge with the branch name from the remote but no such ref was fetched

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I am getting this error for pull      Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref    refs heads feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch  from the remote  but no   such ref was fetched    This error is not coming for any other branch The special thing about this branch is that it is created from the previous commit of another branch  My config file looks like    core      repositoryformatversion   0     filemode   false     bare   false     logallrefupdates   true     symlinks   false     ignorecase   true     hideDotFiles   dotGitOnly  remote  origin       url    lt url here gt      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin    branch  master       remote   origin     merge   refs heads master  branch  new-develop       remote   origin     merge   refs heads new-develop  branch  feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch       remote   origin     merge   refs heads feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch

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Check if your remote branch is available to pull  I had the same issue  finally realized the remote branch was deleted by someone

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Just check if someone deleted the branch at remote

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This error can also be received when the origin branch name has some case issue    For example  origin branch is team1-Team and the local branch has been checkout as team1-team  Then  this T in -Team and t in -team can cause such error  This happened in my case  So  by changing the local name with the origin branch s name  the error was solved

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What this means Your upstream   the remote you call origin   no longer has  or maybe never had  it s impossible to tell from this information alone  a branch named feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch   There s one particularly common reason for that  someone  probably not you  or you d remember  deleted the branch in that other Git repository  What to do This depends on what you want   See the discussion section below   You can   create or re-create the branch on the remote  or delete your local branch  or anything else you can think of   Discussion You must be running git pull  if you were running git merge you would get a different error message  or no error message at all   When you run git fetch  your Git contacts another Git  based on the url line in under the  remote  quot origin quot   section of your configuration   That Git runs a command  upload-pack  that  among other things  sends your Git a list of all branches   You can use git ls-remote to see how this works  try it  it is educational    Here is a snippet of what I get when running this on a Git repository for git itself    git ls-remote origin From  url  bbc61680168542cf6fd3ae637bde395c73b76f0f    HEAD 60115f54bda3a127ed3cc8ffc6ab6c771cbceb1b    refs heads maint bbc61680168542cf6fd3ae637bde395c73b76f0f    refs heads master 5ace31314f460db9aef2f1e2e1bd58016b1541f1    refs heads next 9e085c5399f8c1883cc8cdf175b107a4959d8fa6    refs heads pu dd9985bd6dca5602cb461c4b4987466fa2f31638    refs heads todo  snip   The refs heads  entries list all of the branches that exist on the remote 1 along with the corresponding commit IDs  for refs tags  entries the IDs may point to tag objects rather than commits   Your Git takes each of these branch names and changes it according to the fetch line s  in that same remote section   In this case  your Git replaces refs heads master with refs remotes origin master  for instance   Your Git does this with every branch name that comes across  It also records the original names in the special file FETCH HEAD  you can see this file if you peek into your own  git directory    This file saves the fetched names and IDs  The git pull command is meant as a convenience short cut  it runs git fetch on the appropriate remote  and then git merge  or  if so instructed  git rebase  with whatever arguments are needed to merge  or rebase  as directed by the  branch      section   In this case  your  branch  quot feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch quot   section says to fetch from origin  then merge with whatever ID was found under the name refs heads feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch  Since nothing was found under that name  git pull complains and stops  If you ran this as two separate steps  git fetch and then git merge  or git rebase   your Git would look at your cached remotes origin  remote-tracking branches to see what to merge with or rebase onto   If there was such a branch at one time  you may still have the remote-tracking branch   In this case you would not get an error message   If there was never such a branch  or if you have run git fetch with --prune  which removes dead remote-tracking branches   so that you have no corresponding remote-tracking branch  you would get a complaint  but it would refer to origin feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch instead  In either case  we can conclude that feature Sprint4 ABC-123-Branch does not exist now on the remote named origin  It probably did exist at one time  and you probably created your local branch from the remote-tracking branch   If so  you probably still have the remote-tracking branch   You might investigate to see who removed the branch from the remote  and why  or you might just push something to re-create it  or delete your remote-tracking branch and or your local branch   1Well  all that it is going to admit to  at least   But unless they have specifically hidden some refs  the list includes everything  Edit  Jul 2020  There s a new fetch protocol that can avoid listing everything  and only list names that your Git says it s looking for   This can help with repositories that have huge numbers of branches and or tags   However  if your Git is interested in all possible names  you ll still get all the names here

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For me this happened because i merged a branch dev into master using web interface and then tried to sync pull using VSCode which was open on dev branch  its weird that i could not change to master without getting this error    git pull Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref  refs heads dev  from the remote  but no such ref was fetched     It makes sense that is not finding it refs heads dev - for me it was easier to just delete the local folder and clone again

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In my case I was simply lacking of initial commit on remote branch  so local branch wasn t finding anything to pull and it was giving that error message   I did   git commit -m  first commit     on remote branch git pull    on local branch

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You can easily link your local branch with remote one by running   git checkout  lt your-local-branch gt  git branch --set-upstream-to origin  lt correct-remote-branch gt   lt your-local-branch gt  git pull

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If another pull just works  it means your internet wasn t connected

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You can edit the    gitconfig file in your home folder  This is where all --global settings are saved    Or  use git config --global --unset-all remote origin url and after run git fetch with repository url

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In my case  i had deleted the original branch from which my current branch derived from  So in the  git config file i had    branch  simil2 1 12       remote   origin     merge   refs heads simil2 0 5     rebase   false   the simil2 0 5 was deleted  I replaced it with the same branch name    branch  simil2 1 12       remote   origin     merge   refs heads simil2 1 12     rebase   false   and it worked

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This is a more common error now as many projects are moving their master branch to another name like main  primary  default  root  reference  latest  etc  as discussed at Github plans to replace racially insensitive terms like    master    and    whitelist     To fix it  first find out what the project is now using  which you can find via their github  gitlab or other git server  Then do this to capture the current configuration    git branch -vv       master  968695b  origin master  Track which contest a ballot was sampled for   629       Find the line describing the master branch  and note whether the remote repo is called origin  upstream or whatever  Then using that information  change the branch name to the new one  e g  if it says you re currently tracking origin master  substitute main  git branch master --set-upstream-to origin main  You can also rename your own branch to avoid future confusion  git branch -m main

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I kept running into this issue   In my case   Jerreck s comment about case differences in the branch names was the cause of this error   Some Windows tools aren t aware of case sensitivity   To turn off case-sensitivity in git  run this command   git config --global core ignorecase true   Note that this will impact more than branch names   For example  if you have  Foo h  and  foo h  in the same directory  not a great idea when building software for Windows  then I suspect you cannot turn off case sensitivity

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This can also happen if you someone renamed the branch  So follow these steps  if you know that branch name is renamed  Assuming earlier branch name as wrong-branch-name and someone renamed it to correct-branch-name So   git checkout correct-branch-name   git pull  you ll see this  Your configuration specifies      git branch --unset-upstream   git push --set-upstream origin correct-branch-name  git pull  you ll not get the earlier message

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I just got exactly this error when doing  git pull  when my disk was full  Created some space and it all started working fine again

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For me it was a case sensitivity issue  My local branch was Version feature2 instead of Version Feature2   I re-checked out my branch using the correct casing and then git pull worked

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I got a similar error when the actual cause was that my disk was full  After deleting some files  git pull began to work as I expected

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I was facing the same issue where my current branch was dev and I was checking out to MR branch and doing git pull thereafter  An easy workaround that I took was I created a new folder for MR Branch and did git pull there followed by git clone   So basically I maintained different folders for pushing code to different branch

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I just got the same error  when I didn t use the correct case  I could checkout out  integration   Git told me to perform a git pull to update my branch  I did that  but received the mentioned error  The correct branch name is  Integration  with a capital  I   When I checked out that branch and pulled  it worked without problem

[git] Your configuration specifies to merge with the <branch name> from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.?

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