pull -r remote: Fails with 'No file hash info found'

Bug Report

Description

dvc pull -r <remote> fails with WARNING: No file hash info found for 'dir'. It won't be created. for dvc tracked directory.

• Happens when no default remote is set
• Happens with HTTP remote
• This doesn’t happen with earlier versions (tested with 2.3.0 and works fine)

Reproduce

1. Clone a repo with a dvc tracked directory and no default remote set. (Example repo: https://dagshub.com/Simon/baby-yoda-segmentation-dataset.git in branch nodefault)
2. Run dvc pull -r <remote>

Expected

Successful pulling of files

Environment information

Output of dvc doctor:

DVC version: 2.7.2 (pip)
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Platform: Python 3.7.6 on Darwin-20.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
Supports:
	http (aiohttp = 3.7.4.post0, aiohttp-retry = 2.4.5),
	https (aiohttp = 3.7.4.post0, aiohttp-retry = 2.4.5)
Cache types: reflink, hardlink, symlink
Cache directory: apfs on /dev/disk1s2s1
Caches: local
Remotes: https
Workspace directory: apfs on /dev/disk1s2s1
Repo: dvc, git

[kevashcraft]

For me, this was a simple user error. I was running dvc pull instead of dvc pull -r origin. It only took an hour of tutorials to figure it out 😄

[kongkip]

This issue was closed but I think it was no resolved, issue #6600 doesn’t resolve it either

This is the error am getting from my end

WARNING: No file hash info found for '*\data\prepared'. It won't be created

1 files failed
ERROR: failed to pull data from the cloud - Checkout failed for following targets:
D:\Work\**\SoftwareDevelopment\**\data\prepared

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