Can't update: no tracked branch

Question

I am on Android Studio (Preview) 0.6.0 on Windows and was trying to share my project on GitHub. I used Git Shell to initialize, add, commit and push the project to GitHub. But when I tried to update my project from within Android Studio , I got this error:

Can't update: no tracked branch No tracked branch configured for branch master. To make your branch track a remote branch call, for example, git branch --set-upstream master origin/master 

It does provide this suggestion but I am not sure what to do at this point. Is there a way to fix this from within Android Studio?

Answer 1

If I'm not mislead, you just need to set your local branches to track their pairs in the origin server.

Using your command line, you can try

git checkout mybranch git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/mybranch 

That will configure something as an equivalent of your local branch in the server. I'll bet that Android Studio is complaining about the lack of that.

If someone knows how to do this using the GUI of that IDE, that would be interesting to read. :)

Answer 2

So after reading a bit on how git sets up the repo. I realized that I ran the command

git push origin master 

but instead for the first time I should have ran

git push -u origin master 

which sets up the upstream initially. Way to go!