What is so broken with pull

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

'git pull' used to work for me. Then I tried to sync my branch with
upstream/master according to
https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/syncing-a-fork.

Now this is the shit I am dealing with:

$ git pull
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=<remote>/<branch> android

$ git branch --set-upstream-to=https://github.com/noloader/openssl/android
android
error: the requested upstream branch
'https://github.com/noloader/openssl/android' does not exist
hint:
hint: If you are planning on basing your work on an upstream
hint: branch that already exists at the remote, you may need to
hint: run "git fetch" to retrieve it.
hint:
hint: If you are planning to push out a new local branch that
hint: will track its remote counterpart, you may want to use
hint: "git push -u" to set the upstream config as you push.


What is so broken with these workflows? Wht can't Git perform a simple
god damn sync? Where the hell did the information go? How did Got
manage to lose it?