git join existing project

Question

I want to use git/bitbucket for a new project that already exists. I proceeded as follows (under Windows if that matters):

create a new folder
open with Git Bash
git init
git clone "repository here, from bitbucket.org"
git pull

I get the error: $ git pull There is no tracking information for the current branch. Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details.

So from my understanding, I should be able to pull the existing repository to my local disk, make changes to the files, and then push the changes to git. Could someone tell me which commands are needed to achieve this? The only branch we have is: master, tagged with "main" and "development". This is not a big project, but we want to use git for version control.

Thanks for any hints.

Possible duplicate of [There is no tracking information for the current branch](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32056324/there-is-no-tracking-information-for-the-current-branch) — BugHunter, Sep 26 '19 at 11:12
Skip `git init`, and just do `git clone
`. `` is optional, of course. — Andrejs Cainikovs, Sep 26 '19 at 11:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 26 '19 at 11:30

After cloning the repository, follow below sequences:

git fetch origin
git pull branch_name (There are many different options to take update from the origin)
Update the file
git add file_name
git commit -m "commit message"
git push origin branch_name

Now, all the changes which you made, finally pushed to the remote repository.

git join existing project

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