Git refusing to merge unrelated histories on rebase

Question

During git rebase origin/development the following error message is shown from Git:

fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories
Error redoing m         


        

Answer 1

In my case, the error was just fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories on every try, especially the first pull request after remotely adding a Git repository.

Using the --allow-unrelated-histories flag worked with a pull request in this way:

git pull origin branchname --allow-unrelated-histories