Both --track and --set-upstream-to operates on the current branch. The thing you need is:
--track origin/master or --set-upstream-to=origin/master Gergely On 4 March 2013 18:21, FlashBurn <rail.shafigu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I committed some changes to my repository at home and then I tried to pull > them at my work and I got the following message > > There is no tracking information for the current branch. > Please specify which branch you want to merge with. > See git-pull(1) for details. > git pull <remote> <branch> > If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with: > git branch --set-upstream master origin/master > > Naturally I tried to run git branch --set-upstream master origin/master > And here is what I got when I ran it > The --set-upstream flag is deprecated and will be removed. Consider using > --track or --set-upstream-to > Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin. > > Since this option will be removed I decided to it "the modern" way using > --track. Here is what I got > after running git branch --track master > fatal: A branch named 'master' already exists. > > After this error I decided to use --set-upstream-to option. Here is what I > got after running git branch --set-upstream-to=master > warning: Not setting branch master as its own upstream. > > Then I ran git pull and everything worked. I suspect it worked because of > --set-upstream deprecated. Can someone explain what have I done > wrong with --track and --set-upstream-to options? Any help is appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Git for human beings" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
