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

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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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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/)

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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  lt remote-name gt   lt correct-url gt

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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

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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

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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   git add   git commit -m  Bug Fixed  git push -u origin master

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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

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Are you working with a detached head by any chance   As in      indicating that your latest commit is not a branch head   Warning  the following does a git reset --hard  make sure to use git stash first if you want to save your currently modified files     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  lt commit-id gt      As mentioned in the git checkout man page  emphasis mine       It is sometimes useful to be able to checkout a commit that is not at the tip of one of your branches    The most obvious example is to check out the commit at a tagged official release point  like this      git checkout v2 6 18      Earlier versions of git did not allow this and asked you to create a temporary branch using the -b option  but starting from version 1 5 0  the above command detaches your HEAD from the current branch and directly points at the commit named by the tag  v2 6 18 in the example above        You can use all git commands while in this state    You can use git reset --hard  othercommit to further move around  for example    You can make changes and create a new commit on top of a detached HEAD    You can even create a merge by using git merge  othercommit       The state you are in while your HEAD is detached is not recorded by any branch  which is natural --- you are not on any branch     What this means is that you can discard your temporary commits and merges by switching back to an existing branch  e g  git checkout master   and a later git prune or git gc would garbage-collect them    If you did this by mistake  you can ask the reflog for HEAD where you were  e g      git log -g -2 HEAD

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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

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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

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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

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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

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git push origin local branch remote branch   Explanation  I had the same error  amp  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  amp  remote branch with the following      git push --set-upstream origin local branch remote branch   Or    git push -u origin local branch remote branch

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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

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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

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In my case I had 2 remote repos   git remote -v originhttps https   asim kt     originhttps https   asim kt     origin  ssh git bitbucket org     origin  ssh git bitbucket org       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

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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

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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

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

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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  lt commit-id gt    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  lt commit-id gt  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

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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    lt my new repository url gt  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  lt my branch gt  origin master   git push origin  lt my branch gt    I hope this helps anyone who had my same problem

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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

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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  quot first commit quot       commiting all the files in the project git push origin master

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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