Why does Git tell me No such remote origin when I try to push to origin

Question

I am very new to Git  I only recently created a GitHub account   I ve just tried to push my very first repository  a sample project   but I m getting the following error   No such remote  origin    I ran the following commands   git init git commit -m  first commit  git remote add origin https   github com VijayNew NewExample git git push -u origin master   However  when I ran git commit -m  first commit   I got the following message   nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  git add  to track    So then I tried to set origin  using  git remote set-url origin https   github com VijayNew NewExample git   But I got the following error   No such remote  origin    What did I do wrong  and what should I do

User · Accepted Answer

Two problems   1 - You never told Git to start tracking any file  You write that you ran  git init git commit -m  first commit    and that  at that stage  you got  nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  git add  to track     Git is telling you that you never told it to start tracking any files in the first place  and it has nothing to take a snapshot of  Therefore  Git creates no commit  Before attempting to commit  you should tell Git  for instance       Hey Git  you see that README md file idly sitting in my working directory  there  Could you put it under version control for me  I d like it to go in my first commit snapshot revision      For that you need to stage the files of interest  using  git add README md   before running  git commit -m  some descriptive message    2 - You haven t set up the remote repository  You then ran  git remote add origin https   github com VijayNew NewExample git   After that  your local repository should be able to communicate with the remote repository that resides at the specified URL  https   github com VijayNew NewExample git     provided that remote repo actually exists  However  it seems that you never created that remote repo on GitHub in the first place  at the time of writing this answer  if I try to visit the correponding URL  I get    Before attempting to push to that remote repository  you need to make sure that the latter actually exists  So go to GitHub and create the remote repo in question  Then and only then will you be able to successfully push with  git push -u origin master

User · Answer

The following simple steps help me  First  initialize the repository to work with Git  so that any file changes are tracked  git init  Then  check that the remote repository that you want to associate with the alias origin exists  if not create it in git first    git ls-remote https   github com repo-owner repo-name git   If it exists  associate it with the remote  quot origin quot   git remote add origin https   github com  repo-owner repo-name git  and check to which URL  the remote  quot origin quot  belongs to by using git remote -v    git remote -v origin  https   github com  repo-owner repo-name git  fetch  origin  https   github com  repo-owner repo-name git  push    Next  verify if your origin is properly aliased as follows    cat    git config    remote  quot origin quot           url   https   github com  repo-owner repo-name git         fetch    refs heads   refs remotes origin      You need to see this section  remote  quot origin quot    You can consider to use GitHub Desktop available for both Windows and MacOS  which help me to automatically populate the missing section s in    git config file OR you can manually add it  not great  but hey it works   Optional  You might also want to change the origin alias to make it more intuitive  especially if you are working with multiple origin  git remote rename origin mynewalias  or even remove it  git remote rm origin   Finally  on your first push  if you want master in that repository to be your default upstream  you may want to add the -u parameter git add   git commit -m  First commit  git push -u origin master

User · Answer

I m guessing you didn t run this command after the commit failed so just actually run this to create the remote     git remote add origin https   github com VijayNew NewExample git   And the commit failed because you need to git add some files you want to track

User · Answer

I faced this issue when I was tring to link a locally created repo with a blank repo on github  Initially I was trying git remote set-url but I had to do git remote add instead   git remote add origin https   github com VijayNew NewExample git

[git] Why does Git tell me "No such remote 'origin'" when I try to push to origin?

1 - You never told Git to start tracking any file

2 - You haven't set up the remote repository

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