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

ComputerDruid's answer is great but I don't think it's necessary to set upstream manually unless you want to. I'm adding this answer because people might think that that's a necessary step.

This error will be gone if you specify the remote that you want to pull like below:

git pull origin master

Note that origin is the name of the remote and master is the branch name.

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1) How to check remote's name

git remote -v

2) How to see what branches available in the repository.

git branch -r