Common Git/Github Errors

fixing fatal refusing to merge unrelated histories when pulling into a new GitHub repo, with –allow-unrelated-histories

fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

$ git pull origin master
From github.com:aamnah/myproject.com
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

Newly created Guthub repo, has only a .gitignore file that the local repo doesn’t. can’t push without pulling first.

Solution: You can use --allow-unrelated-histories to force the merge to happen.

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