There is no tracking information for the current branch

Question

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

Answer 1

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/

Answer 2

try

   git pull --rebase

hope this answer helps originally answered here https://stackoverflow.com/a/55015370/8253662

Answer 3

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!

Answer 4

Try using

git push --set-upstream origin <branch_name>

Otherwise

use

git push -u 

will tell you what needs to be done.

Answer 5

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/<my_repository_name> 
git pull

slightly different but hopefully helps someone

Answer 6

I run into this exact message often because I create a local branches via git checkout -b <feature-branch-name> 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.