You could specify what branch you want to pull:
git pull origin master
Or you could set it up so that your local master branch tracks github master branch as an upstream:
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master git pull
This branch tracking is set up for you automatically when you clone a repository (for the default branch only), but if you add a remote to an existing repository you have to set up the tracking yourself. Thankfully, the advice given by git makes that pretty easy to remember how to do.
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