Why while being in a local branch can't I pull into a local branch from another local branch with no potential for merge conflict? "No match"

Question

See the picture below:

I am in a branch called 430-toggle-hide-show-colums (in green).

This is a local branch pushed to GitHub as P.R. draft (not yet merged).

Accidentally, I ended up doing development on the wrong branch back-up-pode-te-salvar which was supposed to be a "back-up" branch before doing some interactive rebase changes.

I would like to bring the fast forward changes from back-up-pode-te-salvar which has a few commits in the future (all other parts are equal) into the official green branch called 430-toggle-hide-show-column.

Being on 430-toggle-hide-show-column, I tried the following:

1 - I pressed F (magit-pull)

2 - After being asked:

Pull into 430-toggle-hide-show-columns from

I pressed e from elsewhere

3 - And then typed

Pull: back-up-pode-te-salvar-430

It was necessary to type everything since auto-complete did not work as I was expecting.

Worse than that, the mini-buffer echoed: No match.

There is no potential conflict.

Why is this happening?

How can I pull changes from one local branch to another in Magit?

Answer 1

I am not 100% sure, but, apparently, the solution is executing command magit-merge which is bound to m in my config, and then executing m again which is associated with the merge flag. There are other options, such as squash-and-merge. But, merge seems the best for my situation.

Also, I still do not understand why pull did not work, specially since merge is part of pull, as far as I know.