There is no tracking information for the current branch

soup_sam

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...

Originally asked by valerio0999 on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

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.

Full answer by ComputerDruid: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/32056416 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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