fatal refusing to merge unrelated histories

Question

Hi Guys,

While trying to combine an existing repository, with a remote repository using git pull command, It shows me the below error.

git pull origin master
From https://github.com/nadim70
* branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories
 command, it shows me the below error.

How to solve this error?

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

It means your work tree and the remote tree you just added do not have any commit in common. That means Git cannot know what to do with them.

So start examining the log of both repositories using bellow command.

vimdiff =(git log master) =(git log remotes/origin/master)

If it is confirmed that the trees do not have commit in common, then check each commit one by one and try to match each commit in both the location.

Answer 2

Try,

git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories

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