How to resolve git's “not something we can merge” error

Question

I just encountered a problem when merging a branch into master in git. First, I got the branch name by running git ls-remote. Let\'s call that branch \"branch-n

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I fixed it using the command below:

git checkout main
git fetch
git checkout branch_name
git fetch
git checkout main
git fetch
git merge branch_name