What is "not something we can merge" error?

Question

I have a remote GitHub repository named "myRepository". Over there I have two branches: master, and test. I checked out these two branches to my work directories: c:\master, c:\test.

When I am at c:\test I did git merge master and I got an error

merge: master - not something we can merge

Did you mean this?
        remoterepo/master

Can you please explain this error to me? I was trying to merge test to master in my working directory (so c:\master will be update with c:\test code) and then I would like to push the updates to the remote master.

Answer 1

It means there is a typo mistake in your branch name.