What is so broken with pull

Jeffrey Walton· Mar 13, 2020, 15:26 UTC · lore

'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?

Andrei Rybak· Mar 13, 2020, 15:49 UTC · re: Jeffrey Walton · lore

Re: What is so broken with pull

Hello Jeffrey,

On 2020-03-13 16:26, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

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> $ 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.

It seems you are trying to set the upstream branch to the branch 'android' of the Github repository https://github.com/noloader/openssl. Option --set-upstream-to expects a remote branch, not a URL. You could try:

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

In the hint printed by git pull, <remote> referes to the name of the remote, not its URL. You can check configuration of remote names and URLs in a repository using command "git remote -v".