What is so broken with pull

'git pull' used to work for me. Then I tried to sync my branch with upstream/master according to https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/syncing-a-fork.

Now this is the shit I am dealing with:

$ git pull 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 <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

    git branch --set-upstream-to=<remote>/<branch> android

$ git branch --set-upstream-to=https://github.com/noloader/openssl/android android error: the requested upstream branch 'https://github.com/noloader/openssl/android' does not exist hint: hint: If you are planning on basing your work on an upstream hint: branch that already exists at the remote, you may need to hint: run "git fetch" to retrieve it. hint: hint: If you are planning to push out a new local branch that hint: will track its remote counterpart, you may want to use hint: "git push -u" to set the upstream config as you push.

What is so broken with these workflows? Wht can't Git perform a simple god damn sync? Where the hell did the information go? How did Got manage to lose it?