I've cloned a Gitlab repo (with a series of branches) locally. I've checked out a branch in this repo using the Git Gui client and noticed that there is no option to pull. I've looked around SO and found a workaround that suggests adding a "pull" command under the tools option in the form, "git pull origin". The current branch would be implied as the last argument yet when attempting this workaround, I am met with an error message stating the following. I've even tried adding a prompt for an argument to the aforementioned command but to no avail. I am still met with the error message below.
You asked to pull from the remote 'origin', but did not specify a branch. Because this is not the default configured remote for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line.
With that said, pulling from the Git Bash shell works but I want to avoid having to open the shell and the GUI client just to work with my remote repos.
Does anyone know of any other workarounds that I could try?
Go to Remote menu and select Fetch from <select remote or All>
Go to Merge menu and select Local Merge, click Tracking Branch and select master or whatever branch.
Not as elegant as git pull if you setup branch tracking.