hint: Pulling without specifying how to reconcile divergent branches is hint: discouraged. You can squelch this message by running one of the following hint: commands sometime before your next pull: hint: hint: git config pull.rebase false # merge (the default strategy) hint: git config pull.rebase true # rebase hint: git config pull.ff only # fast-forward only hint: hint: You can replace "git config" with "git config --global" to set a default hint: preference for all repositories. You can also pass --rebase, --no-rebase, hint: or --ff-only on the command line to override the configured default per hint: invocation. 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 If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with: git branch --set-upstream-to=/ master