Git pull – refusing to merge unrelated histories

By mkyong | December 14, 2018 | Viewed : 19,854 | +393 pv/w

Add --allow-unrelated-histories to solve the Git fatal error – “refusing to merge unrelated histories”

Terminal


$ git pull origin master

From https://github.com/mkyong/java-concurrency
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
 
fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

To fix it :

Terminal


$ git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories

From https://github.com/mkyong/java-concurrency
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Merge made by the 'recursive' strategy.
 LICENSE | 674 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 674 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 LICENSE

References

git-merge documentation –allow-unrelated-histories

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Comments

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Sam Hobbs

But what does the error mean? I assume there might be times when we do not want to allow unrelated histories and that is why it is issuing the message.

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Akshaya

Thanks!