引用自:
http://www.cnblogs.com/lbsx/archive/2010/10/16/1853193.html
当git clone之后，直接git pull它会自动匹配一个正确的remote url
是因为在config文件中配置了以下内容：
1 [branch "master"] 2 remote = origin 3 merge = refs/heads/master
表明：
1.git处于master这个branch下时，默认的remote就是origin；
2.当在master这个brach下使用指定remote和merge的git pull时，使用默认的remote和merge。
但是对于自己建的项目，并用push到远程服务器上，并没有这块内容，需要自己配置。
如果直接运行git pull，会得到如此结果：
1 $ git pull 2 Password: 3 You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you 4 want to merge with, and 'branch.master.merge' in 5 your configuration file does not tell me, either. Please 6 specify which branch you want to use on the command line and 7 try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>'). 8 See git-pull(1) for details. 9 10 If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to 11 use something like the following in your configuration file: 12 13 [branch "master"] 14 remote = <nickname> 15 merge = <remote-ref> 16 17 [remote "<nickname>"] 18 url = <url> 19 fetch = <refspec> 20 21 See git-config(1) for details.
在参考[2]中，有这样一段：
Note: at this point your repository is not setup to merge _from_ the remote branch when you type 'git pull'. You can either freshly 'clone' the repository (see "Developer checkout" below), or configure your current repository this way:
1 git remote add -f origin [email protected]:/srv/git/project.git 2 git config branch.master.remote origin 3 git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
因此通过git config进行如下配置：
1 $ git config branch.master.remote origin 2 $ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
或者加上--global选项，对于全部项目都使用该配置。
参考：
1.How do you get git to always pull from a specific branch? - Stack Overflow