specifying git branch for remote

Question

I\'m trying to update my webbynode pulling from github but I got the message below:

You asked to pull from the remote \'git@github.com:sigbackup/gsapp

Answer 1

What local branch have you checked out?

What git status shows?

You are probably working on some other branch than the local master branch. If you want to fetch new commits from github and merge them to the local master branch, you have to:

git checkout master
git pull

If you want those commits in the branch, on which you are working, you need:

git pull origin master

You were close in your try from PS, but the last param should be branch name, not the repo url.

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You can also just fetch new commits from github, and do not merge it into any local branch, with:

git fetch origin

Then review those changes with git diff, git log, etc, and merge later to the currently checked out branch with:

git merge origin/master

Answer 2

It's strange that you have a branch called origin. origin is used to name a remote automatically created during git clone; you will get in troubles having to disambiguate origin-the-branch and origin-the-remote. Did you add the branch manually to the .git/config? What commands did you run? I suspect that you messed this up.