I tried to pull remote branch to my local machine, but it did not get updated locally. Tyring to resolve this issue.

$git pull origin

$git branch -a

I was on master branch locally.

$git diff membership_module origin/membership_module

The above shows that local branch is different than the remote branch.I was expecting no changes in local and remote branches after a pull.

$git pull origin membership_module:membership_module

Now it shows error as non-fast-forward

! [rejected]        membership_module -> membership_module  (non-fast-forward)

How do I solve this?

Now I tried to switch to that branch.

$git checkout membership_module

I tried to pull again.

$git pull origin membership_module:membership_module

same error ! [rejected]        membership_module -> membership_module  (non-fast-forward)

So I tried following

$git pull --verbose

Now it shows useful information.

 = [up to date]      membership_module -> origin/membership_module
There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to merge with.
See git-pull(1) for details.

    git pull <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

    git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> membership_module

The above is useful.

Now I tried following:

$git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/membership_module membership_module

$git pull origin membership_module

 * branch            membership_module -> FETCH_HEAD
Auto-merging npo_plaza/db/seeds.rb
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in npo_plaza/db/seeds.rb
Auto-merging npo_plaza/db/schema.rb
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in npo_plaza/db/schema.rb
Auto-merging npo_plaza/config/application.rb
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in npo_plaza/config/application.rb
Auto-merging npo_plaza/app/models/ticket_type.rb
Auto-merging npo_plaza/app/models/client.rb
Auto-merging npo_plaza/app/constants/enums.rb
CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in npo_plaza/app/constants/enums.rb
Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.

Then I did git status.

$git status

It showed several new files added and following 4 files which I will have to merge manually.

Unmerged paths:
  (use "git add <file>..." to mark resolution)

    both modified:   npo_plaza/app/constants/enums.rb
    both modified:   npo_plaza/config/application.rb
    both modified:   npo_plaza/db/schema.rb
    both modified:   npo_plaza/db/seeds.rb

I will have to manually merge these 4 files and then add then to git repository.

$git add .

$git commit -m "Membership module development"

$git push origin

This resolved the issue of code mismatch between local branch and remote branch.