How to “pull” from a local branch into another one?

Question

This sounds so simple, but I just can\'t figure it out. I made an experimental branch a while ago, and now I\'d like to pull in all the changes that happened on master since I m

Answer 1

you have to tell git where to pull from, in this case from the current directory/repository:

git pull . master

but when working locally, you usually just call merge (pull internally calls merge):

git merge master