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I'm trying to update my webbynode pulling from github but I got the message below:
You asked to pull from the remote '[email protected]:sigbackup/gsapp.git', but did not specify a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
So I have checked out this forum for help and I found some comments regarding .git/config file but mine looks already fine (at least to me):
[core]
repositoryformatversion = 0
filemode = true
bare = false
logallrefupdates = true
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = [email protected]:sigbackup/gsapp.git
[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
[branch "origin"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master
Am I missing something? Any ideas how I can solve it?
PS I also tried git pull origin [email protected]:sigbackup/gsapp.git and I got
fatal: Couldn't find remote ref [email protected]
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When you're publishing a local branch. You can tell Git to track the newly created remote branch simply by using the -u flag with "git push".
Git checkout remote branch is a way for a programmer to access the work of a colleague or collaborator for the purpose of review and collaboration. There is no actual command called “git checkout remote branch.” It's just a way of referring to the action of checking out a remote branch.
Push a new Git branch to a remote repo Clone the remote Git repo locally. Create a new branch with the branch, switch or checkout commands. Perform a git push with the –set-upstream option to set the remote repo for the new branch. Continue to perform Git commits locally on the new branch.
In order to switch to a remote branch, make sure to fetch your remote branch with “git fetch” first. You can then switch to it by executing “git checkout” with the “-t” option and the name of the branch.
What local branch have you checked out?
What git status shows?
You are probably working on some other branch than the local master branch. If you want to fetch new commits from github and merge them to the local master branch, you have to:
git checkout master
git pull
If you want those commits in the branch, on which you are working, you need:
git pull origin master
You were close in your try from PS, but the last param should be branch name, not the repo url.
You can also just fetch new commits from github, and do not merge it into any local branch, with:
git fetch origin
Then review those changes with git diff, git log, etc, and merge later to the currently checked out branch with:
git merge origin/master
It's strange that you have a branch called origin. origin is used to name a remote automatically created during git clone; you will get in troubles having to disambiguate origin-the-branch and origin-the-remote. Did you add the branch manually to the .git/config? What commands did you run? I suspect that you messed this up.
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