# Pkg.update() error: "There is no tracking information for the current branch"

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-update-error-there-is-no-tracking-information-for-the-current-branch/7431>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 1, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-update-error-there-is-no-tracking-information-for-the-current-branch/7431 "2017-12-01T09:47:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![e3c6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 9:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-update-error-there-is-no-tracking-information-for-the-current-branch/7431/1 "2017-12-01T09:47:22Z")

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I have some packages that I made with just some code that I reuse in multiple applications, but I don’t really want to maintain them in any good way.

Now when I run Pkg.update(), I get an error:

> GitError(Code:ERROR, Class:Merge, There is no tracking information for the current branch.)

What does it mean?

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**Author:** ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pkg-update-error-there-is-no-tracking-information-for-the-current-branch/7431/2 "2017-12-01T10:50:14Z")

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I’m not 100% sure, but it could be missing remote settings for the (local) repository OR you’re on a (local) branch thats not existing on the remote.