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

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.