# You are trying to add an empty repository, add something first, like a readme
touch README.md
git add README.md
git commit -m "Initial commit"
git push --set-upstream origin master

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Contributed on Apr 10 2020

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#Try git show-ref to see what refs you have. Is there a refs/heads/master?
#Due to the recent "Replacing master with main in GitHub" action, 
#you may notice that there is a refs/heads/main. As a result, 
#the following command may change 
#from ---> git push origin HEAD:master
#to   ---> git push origin HEAD:main

#You can try 
git push origin HEAD:master 
#as a more local-reference-independent solution. This explicitly states
#that you want to push the local ref HEAD to the remote ref master 
#(see the git-push refspec documentation).

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Contributed on Nov 16 2022

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git init
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin "_git repository link here_"
git push -u origin main

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Contributed on Aug 25 2021

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git init
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin "_git repository link here_"
git push -u origin main

"main" is the usual branch name in Github repos. In some repos, it can be master or some other name
use the following command at that time
git push origin master

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Contributed on Jul 31 2022

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# find the right branch: master or main
# newer git repos start with main
git push origin main
# to switch head branch:
git branch -M main

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Contributed on Oct 18 2022

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git init

git add .

git commit -m "YOUR FIRST MESSAGE HERE"

git branch -M main

git remote add origin _GIT_LINK_TO_PROJECT_HERE_

git push -u origin main

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Contributed on Dec 13 2021

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### Maybe you just need to commit. I ran into this when I did:###

mkdir repo && cd repo
git remote add origin /path/to/origin.git
git add .
## Oops! Never committed!##

git push -u origin master
error: src refspec master does not match any.
### All I had to do was: ###

git commit -m "initial commit"
git push origin main
### Success! ###

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Contributed on Jun 01 2022

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-1

git merge --allow-unrelated-histories origin/main

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Contributed on Jun 01 2021

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git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

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Contributed on Apr 17 2020

Xerothermic Xenomorph

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Try git show-ref to see what refs you have. Is there a refs/heads/master?
Due to the recent "Replacing master with main in GitHub" action, 
you may notice that there is a refs/heads/main. 
As a result, the following command may change from git push origin HEAD:master 
to git push origin HEAD:main

So try `git push origin main`

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Contributed on Apr 20 2022

Matthew Edelen

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error: src refspec develop does not match any

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