git: You asked me to pull without telling me which branch …

Posted by Wes in Version Control      2 comments

Jul
1

Received this error when trying to pull from a remote origin:

You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
want to merge with, and 'branch.master.merge' in
your configuration file does not tell me either.

To fix, I added this to .git/config:

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2 Comments to “git: You asked me to pull without telling me which branch …”

• January 28, 2011 at 1:48 pm
  vinoth says:

  $ git config branch.master.remote origin
  $ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
• December 8, 2011 at 8:51 pm
  Daniel S says:

  Thanks for that, that helped me. I can’t figure out why git believes i won’t telled which branch i want to use, because i WAS already in the master branch and there is no other branch in the online repo.