Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.

Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref 'XYZ' from the remote, but no such ref was fetched.

Ahhhh!!!!!! WHY GOD WHY!!!!

What happened, why am I seeing this ?

- Your team created a branch, let say 'Project-6.5'
- You then switched to git checkout Project-6.5
- You then did git pull
- You are now crying from getting the "... but no such ref was fetched" error.

What went wrong :

- You switched before pulling. In your local repo, Project-6.5 did not exist yet.

Now that you know what is wrong, what to do :

- Use TortoiseGit to switch branch with the override option
- If you are on linux, then find how to do a checkout with override local branch option (and tell me so I can add it here!)