Question

I am on branch tm-skeleton and executing git pull does something (technically, it asks for password and I hit <ctrl-c> there), but how do I know where is it pulling from? Usually, [branch "tm-skeleton"] section in .git/config file explains all this (remote variable to be precise), but there is no such section for this branch in my config file.

Answer 1

Have you read the git-pull manual under Default Behaviour? To quote a section:

Often people use git pull without giving any parameter. Traditionally,
this has been equivalent to saying git pull origin. However, when
configuration branch.<name>.remote is present while on branch ,
that value is used instead of origin.

In order to determine what URL to use to fetch from, the value of the
configuration remote.<origin>.url is consulted and if there is not any
such variable, the value on URL: line in$GIT_DIR/remotes/<origin>
file is used.