There is no tracking information for the current branch

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I ve been using github from a relatively short period  and I ve always used the client to perform commits and pulls  I decided to try it from the git bash yesterday  and I successfully created a new repo and committed files   Today I did changes to the repository from another computer  I ve committed the changes and now I m back home and performed a git pull to update my local version and I get this   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 develop origin  lt branch gt    the only contributor to this repo is me and there are no branches  just a master   I m on windows and I ve performed the pull from git bash     git status     git status   On branch master nothing to commit  working directory clean   git branch     git branch   master   What am I doing wrong

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This happens due to current branch has no tracking on the branch on the remote. so you can do it with 2 ways.

Pull with specific branch name

git pull origin master

Or you can specific branch to track to the local branch.

git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/

User · Answer

I run into this exact message often because I create a local branches via git checkout -b  lt feature-branch-name gt  without first creating the remote branch    After all the work was finished and committed locally the fix was git push -u which created the remote branch  pushed all my work  and then the merge-request URL

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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

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git branch --set-upstream-to heroku master master  and     git pull   worked for me

User · Answer

git branch --set-upstream-to origin main

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See  git checkout tag  git pull fails in branch  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     run    git set-upstream  git push   Thanks to https   zarino co uk post git-set-upstream

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ComputerDruid s answer is great but I don t think it s necessary to set upstream manually unless you want to  I m adding this answer because people might think that that s a necessary step   This error will be gone if you specify the remote that you want to pull like below   git pull origin master   Note that origin is the name of the remote and master is the branch name     1  How to check remote s name  git remote -v   2  How to see what branches available in the repository   git branch -r

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With Git 2 24  you won t have to do  git branch --set-upstream-to origin master master git pull   You will be able to do   git pull --set-upstream-to origin master master   See more at  default remote and branch using -u option - works with push but not pull

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try     git pull --rebase   hope this answer helps originally answered here https   stackoverflow com a 55015370 8253662

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Try using git push --set-upstream origin  lt branch name gt   Otherwise use git push -u   will tell you what needs to be done

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The same thing happened to me before when I created a new git branch while not pushing it to origin   Try to execute those two lines first   git checkout -b name of new branch   create the new branch git push origin name of new branch   push the branch to github   Then   git pull origin name of new branch   It should be fine now

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1  git branch --set-upstream-to origin  lt master branch gt  feature  lt your current branch gt   2  git pull

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I was trying the above examples and couldn t get them to sync with a  non-master  branch I had created on a different computer  For background  I created this repository on computer A  git v 1 8  and then cloned the repository onto computer B  git 2 14   I made all my changes on comp B  but when I tried to pull the changes onto computer A I was unable to do so  getting the same above error  Similar to the above solutions  I had to do    git branch --set-upstream-to origin  lt my repository name gt   git pull   slightly different but hopefully helps someone

[git] There is no tracking information for the current branch

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