How to Fix: fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories

Today I have a git error, I’ll describe the situation I had maybe I’m not the only one. I created a new git repository in bitbucket, and I already had a codebase, so I wanted to add my new codebase to an empty repository, so I ran the following commands:

# init the git into my codebase
git init
# adding remote origin using the url 
git remote add origin {url}
# selected the branch master  
git checkout master 
# adding everything from my codebase
git add .
# git commit my changes
git commit -am "Initial Commit"
# Pushing to master
git push -u origin master
# I got an error to select the upstream
# Then I had an error saying that I had to pull the changes.
git pull 

And then the error shows up

fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories
Error redoing merge 1234deadbeef1234deadbeef

So how I fix it:

With this command 👇🏼

git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories

Based on git-scm documentation :

–allow-unrelated-histories By default, git merge command refuses to merge histories that do not share a common ancestor. This option can be used to override this safety when merging histories of two projects that started their lives independently. As that is a very rare occasion, no configuration variable to enable this by default exists and will not be added.

And it worked like a charm

Have a blessed day :)