[git] git push says "everything up-to-date" even though I have local changes

I have a remote gitosis server and a local git repository, and each time I make a big change in my code, I'll push the changes to that server too.

But today I find that even though I have some local changes and commit to local repository, when running git push origin master it says 'Everything up-to-date', but when I use git clone to checkout files on the remote server, it doesn't contain latest changes. And I have only one branch named "master" and one remote server named "origin".

PS: This is what git displays when running ls-remote, I'm not sure whether it helps

$ git ls-remote origin
df80d0c64b8e2c160d3d9b106b30aee9540b6ece        HEAD
df80d0c64b8e2c160d3d9b106b30aee9540b6ece        refs/heads/master
$ git ls-remote .
49c2cb46b9e798247898afdb079e76e40c9f77ea        HEAD
df80d0c64b8e2c160d3d9b106b30aee9540b6ece        refs/heads/master
df80d0c64b8e2c160d3d9b106b30aee9540b6ece        refs/remotes/origin/master
3a04c3ea9b81252b0626b760f0a7766b81652c0c        refs/tags/stage3

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I had multiple remotes. All but one pushed correctly, so I knew I didn't have a detached HEAD or commit issues.

Instead, I had accidentally given two remotes the same URL. The remote with the duplicated URL failed because I was pushing to a URL that had already been pushed to!

Using git remote -v showed my list of remotes and their URLs, where I realized the issue.

Resetting the failing remote to its correct URL fixed the issue:
git remote set-url <remote-name> <correct-url>


Verify you haven't goofed your remote URL.

I just wanted to also mention that I ran into this after enabling Git as a CVS in a local Jenkins build configuration. It appears that Jenkins checked out the most recent commit of the branch I gave it and also reset my remote to correspond to the paths I gave it to the repo. Had to checkout my feature branch again and fix my origin remote url with 'git remote set-url'. Don't go pointing a build tool to your working directory or you'll have a bad time. My remote was set to a file path to my working directory, so it naturally reported everything up-to-date when I attempted to push changes with the same source and destination.


Err.. If you are a git noob are you sure you have git commit before git push? I made this mistake the first time!


I have faced same issue. As I didn't add changes to staging area. And I directly tried to push the code to remote repo using command :

git push origin master

And it shows the message Everything up-to-date.

to fix this this issue, try these steps

  1. git add .
  2. git commit -m "Bug Fixed"
  3. git push -u origin master

From your git status, you probably has a different situation from mine.

But anyway, here is what happened to me.. I encountered the following error:

fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
Everything up-to-date

The more informative message here is that the remote hung up. Turned out it is due to exceeding the http post buffer size. The solution is to increase it with

git config http.postBuffer 524288000


I had this happen (commits in my git log were not on GitHub even though git said everything was up to date) and I'm confident the problem was Github. I didn't get any error messages in git, but GitHub had status errors and my commits were there several hours later.

https://status.github.com/messages

The GitHub status messages were:

  • We are investigating reports of service unavailability.
  • We're investigating problems accessing GitHub.com.
  • We're failing over a data storage system in order to restore access to GitHub.com.

Another possibility is that you named a directory in your .gitignore file that got excluded. So the new commits wouldn't be pushed. It happened to me that I named a directory to ignore "search", but that was also a directory in my source tree.


See VonC's answer above - I needed an extra step:

$ git log -1
- note the SHA-1 of latest commit
$ git checkout master
- reset your branch head to your previously detached commit
$ git reset --hard <commit-id>

I did this, but when I then tried to git push remoterepo master, it said "error: failed to push some refs. To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected, Merge the remote changes (e.g. 'git pull') before pushing again."

So I did 'git pull remoterepo master', and it found a conflict. I did git reset --hard <commit-id> again, copied the conflicted files to a backup folder, did git pull remoterepo master again, copied the conflicted files back into my project, did git commit, then git push remoterepo master, and this time it worked.

Git stopped saying 'everything is up to date' - and it stopped complaining about 'fast forwards'.


I had the same issue. In my case it was caused by having to names for the same remote. It created the standard 'origin', but I've been using 'github' as my remote for a long time, so that was there too. As soon as I removed the 'origin' remote, the error went away.


We need to add the files and commit the already changed/added files execute below commands

git add . or git add nameoffile #it will add the existing files in the project

git commit -m "first commit" #commiting all the files in the project

git push origin master


Another very simple yet noobish mistake of mine: I simply forgot to add a message -m modifier in my commit. So I wrote:

git commit 'My message'

Instead of correct:

git commit -m 'My message'

NOTE: It does NOT throw any errors! But you will not be able to push your commits and always get Everything up to date instead


Another situation that is important to be aware of: The sort of default state for git is that you are working in the "master" branch. And for a lot of situations, you'll just hang out in that as your main working branch (although some people get fancy and do other things).

Anyway, that's just one branch. So a situation I might get into is:

My active branch is actually NOT the master branch. ... But I habitually do the command: git push (and I had previously done git push origin master, so it's a shortcut for THAT).

So I'm habitually pushing the master branch to the shared repo ... which is probably a good clean thing, in my case ...

But I have forgotten that the changes I have been working on are not yet IN the master branch !!!

So therefore everytime I try git push, and I see "Everything up to date", I want to scream, but of course, it is not git's fault! It's mine.

So instead, I merge my branch into master, and then do push, and everything is happy again.


I ran into this myself when I merged a branch on Github and continued to develop in it locally. My fix was a little different than the others that have been suggested.

First I branched a new local branch off my old local branch (that I couldn't push). Then I pushed the new local branch to the origin server (Github). I.e.

$ git checkout -b newlocalbranch oldlocalbranch
$ git push origin newlocalbranch

This got the changes to show up on Github, albeit in newlocalbranch rather than oldlocalbranch.


My issue was that my local branch had a different name than the remote branch. I was able to push by doing the following:

$ git push origin local-branch-name:remote-branch-name

(Credit to https://penandpants.com/2013/02/07/git-pushing-to-a-remote-branch-with-a-different-name/)


My mistake was different than everything so far mentioned. If you have no idea why you would have a detached head, then you probably don't. I was working on autopilot with git commit and git push, and hadn't read the output from git commit. Turns out, it was an error message because I forgot -am.

[colin] ~/github/rentap.js [master] M % git commit 'figured out some more stuff with the forms in views and started figuring out row and mode in models so also made matching routes and controllers'
error: pathspec 'figured out some more stuff with the forms in views and started figuring out row and mode in models so also made matching routes and controllers' did not match any file(s) known to git.
[colin] ~/github/rentap.js [master] M % git push
Enter passphrase for key '/home/colin/.ssh/id_ecdsa': 
Everything up-to-date

Fixed it by putting -am where I usually do:

[colin] ~/github/rentap.js [master] M % git commit -am 'figured out some more stuff with the forms in views and started figuring out row and mode in models so also made matching routes and controllers'

In my case I had 2 remote repos.

git remote -v
originhttps https://asim_kt@...
originhttps https://asim_kt@...
origin  ssh:[email protected]:...
origin  ssh:[email protected]:...

Both repo was same. Just one was https other was ssh. So removing the unwanted one, (In my case ssh. since I used https because ssh wasn't working!) fixed the issue for me.


Another possibility is that you have commits that don't affect the directory you're pushing. So in my case I had a structure like

- .git
- README.md
- client/
 - package.json
 - example.js
- api/
 - requirements.txt
 - example.py

And I made a commit to master modifying README.md, then ran git subtree push --prefix client heroku-client master and got the message Everything up-to-date


Super rare - but still: On Windows, it might be that packed-refs has a branch with one letter case (i.e dev/mybranch), while refs folder has another case (i.e Dev/mybranch) when core.ignorecase is set to true.

The solution is to manually delete the relevant row from packed-refs. Didn't find a cleaner solution.


I had this problem today and it didn't have anything to do with any of the other answers. Here's what I did and how I fixed it:

A repository of mine recently moved, but I had a local copy. I branched off of my local "master" branch and made some changes--and then I remembered that the repository had moved. I used git remote set-url origin https://<my_new_repository_url> to set the new URL but when I pushed it would just say "Everything up to date" instead of pushing my new branch to master.

I ended up solving it by rebasing onto origin/master and then pushing with explicit branch names, like this:

$ git rebase <my_branch> origin/master
$ git push origin <my_branch>

I hope this helps anyone who had my same problem!


Maybe you're pushing a new local branch?

A new local branch must be pushed explicitly:

git push origin your-new-branch-name

Just one of those things about git... You clone a repo, make a branch, commit some changes, push... "Everything is up to date". I understand why it happens, but this workflow is extremely unfriendly to newcomers.


$ git push origin local_branch:remote_branch

Explanation

I had the same error & spent hours trying to figure it out. Finally I found it. What I didn't know is that pushing like this git push origin branch-x will try to search for branch-x locally then push to remote branch-x.

In my case, I had two remote urls. I did a checkout from branch-x to branch-y when trying to push from y locally to x remote I had the message everything is up to date which is normal cause I was pushing to x of the second remote.

Long story short to not fall in this kind of trap you need to specify the source ref and the target ref:

$ git push origin local_branch:remote_branch

Update:

If you have to run this command every time you push your branch, you maybe need to set the upstream between your local & remote branch with the following :

$ git push --set-upstream origin local_branch:remote_branch

Or

$ git push -u origin local_branch:remote_branch

I have faced a similar situation; when I made the changes and tried to git push origin master, it was saying everything was up to date.

I had to git add the changed file and then git push origin master. It started working from then on.


I was working with Jupyter-Notebook when I encountered this deceptive error.

I wasn't able to resolve through the solutions provided above as I neither had a detached head nor did I have different names for my local and remote repo.

But what I did have was my file sizes were slightly greater than 1MB and the largest was almost ~2MB.

I reduced the file size of each of the file using https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37807308/[][1] technique.

It helped reduce my file size by clearing the outputs. I was able to push the code, henceforth as it brought my file size in KBs.


here, my solution is different from the above. i haven't figured out how this problem happen, but i fixed it. a little unexpectedly.

now comes way:

_x000D_
_x000D_
$ git push origin  use_local_cache_v1_x000D_
Everything up-to-date_x000D_
$ git status_x000D_
On branch test_x000D_
Your branch is ahead of 'origin/use_local_cache_v1' by 4 commits._x000D_
  (use "git push" to publish your local commits)_x000D_
  ......_x000D_
$ git push_x000D_
fatal: The upstream branch of your current branch does not match_x000D_
the name of your current branch.  To push to the upstream branch_x000D_
on the remote, use_x000D_
_x000D_
    git push origin HEAD:use_local_cache_v1_x000D_
_x000D_
To push to the branch of the same name on the remote, use_x000D_
_x000D_
    git push origin test_x000D_
    _x000D_
$ git push origin HEAD:use_local_cache_v1    _x000D_
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)_x000D_
remote:
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

the command that works for me is

$git push origin HEAD:use_local_cache

(hope you guys get out of this trouble as soon as possible)


There is a quick way I found. Go to your .git folder, open the HEAD file and change whatever branch you were on back to master. E.g. ref: refs/heads/master


I know it is super old, but in my case I fixed it quite quick.

I was getting this same error while being one commit ahead of master. Then I found the current Stack Overflow post. However before proceeding with the suggested ideas, I just decided to make a new commit and try again with the push to origin and it worked smoothly.

I don't know why, but maybe it is useful for somebody else.