On 10/14/2016 10:01 AM, racoon wrote:
> On 14.10.2016 15:50, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 02:10:18PM +0200, racoon wrote:
>>> Thanks. Unfortunately, the final step "git pull" gives me this:
>>>
>>> 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-to=origin/<branch> master
>>
>> Try the following command:
>>
>> git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master
>>
>> The command says that your local master branch should be linked to the
>> remote's master branch. That way when you do a git pull it will update.
>
> Thanks. That worked.
I recommend pulling with
git pull --rebase
This will avoid stupid merge commits by rebasing your current work on
top of whatever is getting pulled in from upstream.
Richard
