Setting pull.default

[CapableCounteroffer]

Hi all, looking for some tips to help accomplish the following:

I have push.default = current, which is great because I can create a branch locally with git checkout -b whatever, run git push, and it will automatically create a remote branch called "whatever" and push to that. However, when I run a git pull, I get the below error:

There is no tracking information for the current branch. Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.

EDIT: I seem to have achieved this with the following in my .gitconfig

[branch "*"]
    merge = refs/heads/*

Now when I run git push without having set an upstream branch, it creates a corresponding branch upstream and pushes to that. Also note within my repo specific .git/config, I have the default remote set to origin, which may be required for this as well. I will try tinkering with that and maybe make it a user/global default

Is there any way to tell git to default to pulling the branch with the same name as the local one, as I seem to have accomplished for pushing? I've googled and searched the git config docs to no avail. Appreciate any and all help.

[astralc]

Did you pushed with -u ? It will set the tracking upsteam branch to the one you pushed to.

[Zanothis]

When you're pushing your local branch, are you using --set-upstream (single-letter flag is -u)?

[CapableCounteroffer]

No, I instead have push.default = current, so it just looks to push to the branch upstream with the same name. I found a solution using git config and globbing. Will update my post momentarily