How to pull local master into local branch

merge changes from local_branch TO master

git checkout master
git merge local_branch

merge changes from master TO local_branch

git checkout local_branch
git merge master

Pull is when you have an 'origin' repo :)

git pull is an alias for git fetch && git merge you cannot fetch from local branches (only from remotes) - actually you don't need to, if your intention is to merge master into local_branch, just use git merge master when you are on local_branch.