git: updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally

Question

I\'m working on a team with a few developers using git on BitBucket. We are all working on a dev branch, not pushing to master until a release.

Answer 1

It happens when we are trying to push to remote repository but has created a new file on remote which has not been pulled yet, let say Readme. In that case as the error says

git rejects the update

as we have not taken updated remote in our local environment. So Take pull first from remote

git pull

It will update your local repository and add a new Readme file. Then Push updated changes to remote

git push origin master