"Could not get advertised Ref for branch..." error when pulling in a git repository in Eclipse

Question

When trying to pull (Team|Pull from the context menu) in a git repository in Eclipse I get Could not get advertised Ref for branch refs/heads/develop error. I guess that's because remote branch named develop was deleted in the meantime. Branch develop is currently checked out.

How to fix this?
Can I configure git and/or Eclipse so that I don't get this error next time some other remote branch gets deleted?

Answer 1

I had the same error, and so I made sure my .git/config file had the following:

[branch "mybranch"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/mybranch

That made EGit happy.