Fix: Fatal: Refusing to Merge Unrelated Histories

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The error message:

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occurs when you try to merge or pull from a remote repository that has a different Git history than your local repository. This often happens when:

You initialized a new local Git repository (git init) and are trying to pull from a remote repository.
Your local repository and the remote repository started separately and have no shared history.

If you intentionally want to merge two separate Git histories, you can use the

–allow-unrelated-histories flag:

git pull origin main –allow-unrelated-histories

(Change main to master or your branch name if needed.)

Ensure that your local repository is correctly linked to the remote repository:

git remote -v

If it’s not connected, add the remote:

git remote add origin <repository_url>

Then try pulling again.

If you’re okay with overwriting local changes, you can reset to the remote repository:

git fetch –all

git reset –hard origin/main

(Replace main with the correct branch name.)