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Claudio Freitas •

This one is saving me a lot of headache lately.

git config --global alias.set-upstream "!git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/`git symbolic-ref --short HEAD`"
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Then everytime you receive the 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-to=origin/<branch> branch-name
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just run

git set-upstream
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It is util when your local branch names are the same as in your remote.

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Michael Z • • Edited

I don't recall running into this after having set the push.default option to current stackoverflow.com/a/948397

Only thing I have to do is add the -u flag to the push command once to set the upstream. (git push -u)