Get merge not working

[ellenclary]

$ git show HEAD
commit 2fd7d9b248e0b4a3b531b9af3bb61916d42ad45f
Author: danasselin johndoe@example.com
Date: Thu Oct 29 15:42:55 2015 -0400

Add first question to physics quiz

diff --git a/physics.txt b/physics.txt
index e69de29..3d47f43 100644
--- a/physics.txt
+++ b/physics.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+1. A scalar is a quantity which has both magnitude and direction.
+a) true
+b) false
\ No newline at end of file

**$ git merge origin/master
merge: origin/master -**
not something we can merge

$ pwd
/home/ccuser/workspace/curriculum-a/my-quizzes

[ellenclary]

Figured it out. Every new page puts you back in the home directory, so you have to cd my-quizzes again even though that's where you were for the fetch.

[coreblaster23285]

I'm on the local master branch but it still wont let me merge to origin/master for some reason. What do I do Ellenclary?

[ellenclary]

What does pwd say?
you need to get back into my-quizzes.

[coreblaster23285]

/home/ccuser/workspace/curriculum-a/my-quizzes

[blogrunner90893]

make git fetch origin/master first.

[albionsrefuge]

A post was split to a new topic: Fatal: 'origin/master' does not appear to be a git repository

[albionsrefuge]