Im have strange problem:
$ cd ~/htdocs $ mkdir test $ cd test $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/deep/htdocs/test/.git/ $ git checkout master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git. $ git checkout -b master fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born $ git checkout origin/master error: pathspec 'origin/master' did not match any file(s) known to git. $ git branch -a (empty this) But this is new local empty repo. Where is master branch?
As ever, Git is right, it just has a quirky way of saying it: when you create a repository, the master branch actually doesn't exist yet because there's nothing for it to point to.
Have you tried committing something after your git init? Adding a remote and pulling from it will also work, of course.
I had the same problem as you. The way I solved was creating a new empty file just to have a file in the project.
git add someFile then commit -m "first commit" and finally with push origin master
i hope it helps
I had the same error message when I had multiple Windows Explorers open, both opened to the same existing local git repo.
I created a new branch in one window, by using right-click --> create branch.
Later, in the 2nd instance of Windows Explorer, I attempted to right click --> Branch (to find out which branch was currently checked out). I then got the message "You are on a branch yet to be born".
Simply closing the 2nd Explorer ended the problem, and the error did not show up in the 1st Explorer.
If someone reaches this part, I think you have no luck with the top answers. I got the same situation with OP too. Try this: