How do I do a git pull to a specific branch?

Question

I am trying to pull from my heroku remote, I get this message:

>git pull heroku You asked to pull from the remote 'heroku', but did not specify a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote 

My local branch is 'develop'.

How do I pull from Heroku to my local branch 'develop' ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Updated answer: You need to specify what branch you want to pull from, since your local branch is not configured to pull from heroku's master.

So try something like:

git pull heroku master 

Remember that you have to have checked out develop in order for this command to pull to the local branch develop.

Answer 2

Note: if you want to push/pull by default to heroku/master from your develop branch, you can configure it with:

git branch --set-upstream-to develop heroku/master 

You can check your merge policy on the develop branch with a:

git config branch.develop.merge 

Note: As commented by Animay, since Git 1.8, --set-upstream is renamed --set-upstream-to.
--track is also possible, although slightly different.