Why does my 'git branch' have no master?

Question

I\'m a git newbie and I keep reading about a \"master\" branch. Is \"master\" just a conventional name that people used or does it have special meaning like HEAD

Answer 1

It seems there must be at least one local commit on the master branch to do:

git push -u origin master

So if you did git init . and then git remote add origin ..., you still need to do:

git add ...
git commit -m "..."