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Reputation: 325

git pull generates "fatal: No remote repository specified." error

I want to start contributing to a project hosted on Github. I have taken the following steps:

  1. git init
  2. git pull https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/EVCM.git

The pull command succeeded and the files where copied to my local directory. But when I try git pull again, then I get the following error

"fatal: No remote repository specified. Please, specify either a URL or a remote name from which new revisions should be fetched."

I did not get this error when I pulled from and pushed to other Github repositories in the past. What is the problem and how can I fix it? Could it be because I have pulled the same repository to a different local directory in the past? In either case, what should I do to fix the problem?

Upvotes: 17

Views: 81375

Answers (4)

Perfect
Perfect

Reputation: 1646

You need to follow the correct steps.

You already did git init, then add remote by doing this.

git remote add origin https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/EVCM.git

Now the working tree can recognize origin so

git pull origin master

That's all and I hope it would be helpful to you.

Thanks

Upvotes: 40

Mingsheng
Mingsheng

Reputation: 1099

According to git's command line:

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

git branch --set-upstream-to=<remote>/<branch> <local branch>

This would allow you to simply run "git pull" instead of "git pull origin branch"

Upvotes: 15

Habib Kazemi
Habib Kazemi

Reputation: 2190

first do git remote add origin https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/EVCM.git

then do git pull origin here is a good tutorial https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/syncing/git-pull

but if you use git clone it will create automatically the originfor you.

Upvotes: 4

Eric Brandwein
Eric Brandwein

Reputation: 891

You should always start with a git clone (and I'd suggest you do that), but if you want to continue from here, here's the way:

You can use git remote add origin https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/EVCM.git to add a remote, and set its name to origin. You can check this tutorial if you want to know more. This, I hope, will fix your problem. If you encounter other problems, just do a git clone.

Upvotes: 21

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