Cannot push to GitHub - keeps saying need merge

Question

I\'m new to GitHub. Today I met some issue when I was trying to push my code to GitHub.

Pushing to git@github.com:519ebayproject/519ebayproject.git
To git@gi         


        

Answer 1

I experienced the very same problem and it turned out I was on a different (local) branch than I thought I was AND the correct local branch was behind in commits from remote.

My solution: checkout the correct branch, cherry-pick the commit from the other local branch, git pull and git push