git pull origin master returns “Already up-to-date” even though it isn't

Question

I'm using git pull origin master to pull my Bitbucket repo onto my Digital Ocean Django server directory (which already has some folders for Django like env and static ) . When I do this it says Already up-to-date. but the repo didn't come through? I'm not sure if I'm misinterpreting what git pull does but I assumed it took the contents of mu repo and merged with my current directory. If this isn't true, can somebody explain what other command I should do to achieve this?

Answer 1

Have you set the origin at the first place, from where you want to pull the git repo. If not, then you should set the origin, first.

git remote add origin <link to your git repository>

for eg., git remote add origin https://github.com/gitaccname/gitproject.git
or, git remote add origin git@github.com:gitaccname/gitproject.git

After that, you can pull your git repository into whichever server you like, using the command.

git pull origin master