如何从本地主机（而不是已删除的分支）中提取本地存储库？

Question

I have a local repo that was initially cloned from a branch (using git clone --single-branch ). That branch was merged into master and then deleted.

When I tried to switch to master in my local repo using git checkout master , I got error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. I had to do a git checkout -b master instead, and then git status said I am on branch master.

But when I do a git pull , it is still pointing to the deleted branch because it prints out fatal: Couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/deleted-branch-name .

How do I remove any remaining references to the deleted branch, so that git pull pulls from the master branch?

Answer 1

When you clone a single branch, you only get that single branch, not master . When you then execute git checkout -b master , you are checking out to a branch you are creating on the fly. That is, you create a local branch called master and you checkout to that branch. Of course, that master branch is not related to your remote master . You could have used git fetch origin to get all the branches of the repo. Example:

git fetch origin
git checkout -b master # creates a new branch called master
git merge origin/master # merge the master branch from the repo into yours