title: How to fix "refusing to merge unrelated histories"? I have tried "git pull origin master --allow-unrelated-histories"
body: <p>I am trying to pull everything from my dev branch to master but I am getting "Already up to date". So when I tried to merge them together, i get, "fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories". Can someone please help me.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried git reset --hard</p>
  
  <p>iwithman~/Programming/ibusiness-card-web$:git merge wip269 origin/master</p>
  
  <p>fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories</p>
  
  <p>iwithman~/Programming/ibusiness-card-web$:git branch</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>master</p>
  
  <p>wip269</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>iwithman~/Programming/ibusiness-card-web$:git merge wip269</p>
  
  <p>fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories</p>
  
  <p>iwithman~/Programming/ibusiness-card-web$:git pull wip269</p>
  
  <p>fatal: 'wip269' does not appear to be a git repository</p>
  
  <p>fatal: Could not read from remote repository.</p>