Git push won t do anything everything up-to-date

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I m trying to update a Git repository on GitHub  I made a bunch of changes  added them  committed then attempted to do a git push  The response tells me that everything is up to date  but clearly it s not   git remote show origin   responds with the repository I d expect   Why is Git telling me the repository is up to date when there are local commits that aren t visible on the repository      searchgraph   git status   On branch develop   Untracked files       use  git add  lt file gt      to include in what will be committed            Capfile         config deploy rb nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  git add  to track      searchgraph   git add       searchgraph   git status   On branch develop   Changes to be committed       use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage            new file    Capfile         new file    config deploy rb       searchgraph   git commit -m  Added Capistrano deployment   develop 12e8af7  Added Capistrano deployment  2 files changed  26 insertions     0 deletions -   create mode 100644 Capfile  create mode 100644 config deploy rb     searchgraph   git push Everything up-to-date     searchgraph   git status   On branch develop nothing to commit  working directory clean

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This happened to me once I tried to push from a new branch and I used git push origin master instead. You should either:

Use: git push origin your_new_branch if you want that this branch occurs too in the remote repo.
Else check out to your master branch merge things then push to from master to git repo with git merge origin master.

Recap: the point here is that you should check out where you offer on the second parameter for git merge. So if you are in the master use master as the second parameter if you are in the new_branch use this as the second parameter if you want to keep this branch in the remote repo else opt for the second option above instead.

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For my case  none of other solutions worked  I had to do a backup of new modified files  shown with git status   and run a git reset --hard  This allowed me to realign with the remote server  Adding new modified files  and running  git add   git commit -am  my comment  git push   Did the trick  I hope this helps someone  as a  last chance  solution

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I tried many methods including defined here  What I got is     Make sure the name of repository is valid  The best way is to copy the link from repository site and paste in git bash  Make sure you have commited the selected files   git commit -m  Your commit here   If both steps don t work  try  git push -u -f origin master

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To be specific  if you want to merge something to master  you can follow the below steps   git add --all    If you want to stage all changes other options also available git commit -m  Your commit message  git push    By default when it clone is sets your origin to master or you would have set sometime with git push -u origin master    It s a common practice in the pull request model create to a new local branch and then push that branch to remote  For that you need to mention where you want to push your changes at remote  You can do this by mentioning remote at the time of push   git push origin develop    It will create a remote branch with name  develop     If you want to create a branch other than your local branch name you can do that with the following command   git push origin develop some-other-name

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This happened to me  I just re-committed the changes  and then it pushed

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Please try going to the last commit and then do git push origin HEAD master

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Thanks to Sam Stokes  According to his answer you can solve the problem with different way  I used this way   After updating your develop directory you should reinitialize it  git init   Then you can commit and push updates to master

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This happened to me when my SourceTree application crashed during staging  And on the command line  it seemed like the previous git add had been corrupted  If this is the case  try   git init git add -A git commit -m  Fix bad repo  git push   On the last command  you might need to set the branch   git push --all origin master   Bear in mind that this is enough if you haven t done any branching or any of that sort  In that case  make sure you push to the correct branch like git push origin develop

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Try   git push --all origin

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git push origin master

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git push doesn t push all of your local branches  how would it know which remote branches to push them to  It only pushes local branches which have been configured to push to a particular remote branch   On my version of Git  1 6 5 3   when I run git remote show origin it actually prints out which branches are configured for push   Local refs configured for  git push     master pushes to master  up to date    quux   pushes to quux    fast forwardable    Q  But I could push to master without worrying about all this   When you git clone  by default it sets up your local master branch to push to the remote s master branch  locally referred to as origin master   so if you only commit on master  then a simple git push will always push your changes back   However  from the output snippet you posted  you re on a branch called develop  which I m guessing hasn t been set up to push to anything   So git push without arguments won t push commits on that branch   When it says  Everything up-to-date   it means  all the branches you ve told me how to push are up to date    Q  So how can I push my commits   If what you want to do is put your changes from develop into origin master  then you should probably merge them into your local master then push that   git checkout master git merge develop git push               will push  master    If what you want is to create a develop branch on the remote  separate from master  then supply arguments to git push   git push origin develop   That will  create a new branch on the remote called develop  and bring that branch up to date with your local develop branch  and set develop to push to origin develop so that in future  git push without arguments will push develop automatically   If you want to push your local develop to a remote branch called something other than develop  then you can say   git push origin develop something-else   However  that form won t set up develop to always push to origin something-else in future  it s a one-shot operation

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Try git add -A instead of git add

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This happened to me when I  C in the middle of a git push to GitHub  GitHub did not show that the changes had been made  however   To fix it  I made a change to my working tree  committed  and then pushed again  It worked perfectly fine

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Instead  you could try the following  You don t have to go to master  you can directly force push the changes from your branch itself   As explained above  when you do a rebase  you are changing the history on your branch  As a result  if you try to do a normal git push after a rebase  Git will reject it because there isn t a direct path from the commit on the server to the commit on your branch  Instead  you ll need to use the -f or --force flag to tell Git that yes  you really know what you re doing  When doing force pushes  it is highly recommended that you set your push default config setting to simple  which is the default in Git 2 0  To make sure that your configuration is correct  run     git config --global push default simple   Once it s correct  you can just run     git push -f   And check your pull request  It should be updated   Go to bottom of How to Rebase a Pull Request for more details

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In my case  I had to delete all remotes  there were multiple for some unexplained reason   add the remote again  and commit with -f    git remote origin upstream    git remote remove upstream   git remote remove origin   git remote add origin  lt my origin gt    git push -u -f origin main  I don t know if the -u flag contributed anything  but it doesn t hurt either

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Right now  it appears as you are on the develop branch  Do you have a develop branch on your origin  If not  try git push origin develop  git push will work once it knows about a develop branch on your origin   As further reading  I d have a look at the git-push man pages  in particular  the examples section

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