How to pull from a local branch into another one

Question

This sounds so simple  but I just can t figure it out  I made an experimental branch a while ago  and now I d like to pull in all the changes that happened on master since I made it  This is all local  I want to pull from local master into local my branch  but I can t do it  This doesn t seem to work  telling me that master isn t a git repository   git pull master

User · Answer

What you are looking for is merging   git merge master   With pull you fetch changes from a remote repository and merge them into the current branch

User · Answer

you have to tell git where to pull from  in this case from the current directory repository   git pull   master   but when working locally  you usually just call merge  pull internally calls merge    git merge master

User · Answer

Quite old post  but it might help somebody new into git   I will go with  git rebase master    much cleaner log history and no merge commits  if done properly  need to deal with conflicts  but it s not that difficult

User · Answer

If you are looking for a brand new pull from another branch like from local to master you can follow this   git commit -m  Initial Commit  git add   git pull --rebase git url git push origin master

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