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Bruce Gust🇺🇸

There is no tracking information for the current branch?

I created a new branch, did some work then pushed it up to the remote repository.

I did some work directly on the branch on Github and then wanted to pull those changes down to my local box. So, I did this:

$ git pull
remote: Enumerating objects: 36, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (36/36), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (29/29), done.
remote: Total 36 (delta 17), reused 12 (delta 7), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (36/36), done.
From https://github.com/applied-health-analytics/bsmart
ff42226..63ba0cd code-cleanup -> origin/code-cleanup
a9ed3c3..71641ee final-activity-stream -> origin/final-activity-stream
* [new branch] fix-postal-code-market -> origin/fix-postal-code-market
* [new branch] fix-proposal-dates -> origin/fix-proposal-dates
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> final-activity-stream

That threw me.

Why would it be saying that there's not tracking information?

Bottom line: I want the changes that have been to this branch on the remote repository to be brought down to my local box.

How do I do that?

I would've thought a basic "git pull" would do the track, but I'm hesitating now in light of what you see above.

What do you think?

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Chris Stanyon🇬🇧

Sounds like you're trying to pull a remote branch down with out a local branch to pull it into. Specify thant you want to pull down a remote branch (default name of remote is origin)

git pull origin remoteBranchName

Bruce Gust🇺🇸

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I'll do it, but just so I understand what I'm doing wrong.

The reason I'm getting this message is because the base branch is "code-cleanup." When I do a "pull" and I haven't specified the fact that I want to track this particular branch, that's why I get this message?

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Bruce Gust🇺🇸

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And here's another one, Chris...

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29179992/Run-in-Linter-and-refactor-What's-expected-in-this-scenario.html#questionAdd

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Bruce Gust🇺🇸

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Got it!

Thank you!

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