Git error src refspec master does not match any error failed to push some refs

Question

I am trying to add a file to my repository on BitBucket and I am having trouble.

I am using GIT and this is what I type in

$ cd lis4368/assignments
$ git remote
$ git remote -v
$ git remote rm origin

and then I type this in (this is what BitBucket tells me to enter)

$ git remote add origin https://[email protected]/cpb09e/cpb09e.git
$ git push -u origin master

And I keep getting this error message:

error: src refspec master does not match any.
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://[email protected]/cpb09e/cpb09e.git'

Can someone pleas help me out? I have tried everything from git commit to rm -rf * and I cannot get anything to work at all.

User · Answer

It doesn t recognize that you have a master branch  but I found a way to get around it  I found out that there s nothing special about a master branch  you can just create another branch and call it master branch and that s what I did   To create a master branch   git checkout -b master   And you can work off of that

User · Answer

One classic root cause for this message is   when the repo has been initialized  git init lis4368 assignments   but no commit has ever been made  Ie  if you don t have added and committed at least once  there won t be a local master branch to push to  Try first to create a commit   either by adding  git add    then git commit -m  quot first commit quot   assuming you have the right files in place to add to the index  or by create a first empty commit  git commit --allow-empty -m  quot Initial empty commit quot   And then try git push -u origin master again  See  quot Why do I need to explicitly push a new branch  quot  for more

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