I want make push and get error: src refspec master does not match any

Question

I\'m hosting on Heroku. I want to make a push:

git push master Heroku

I gets the message:

error: src refspec master does no         


        

Answer 1

I experienced the same issue. For me the problem occurred because I hadn't signed into git correctly. Before you can push code to the master branch, you must have first made your initial commit with the command git commit -m "My first commit". You may have gotten this response when trying to do that (like I got):

git: fatal unable to auto-detect email address (got "some wrong email").

If that was the response you got, you must now enter your desired git email and username with the commands:

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

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

After you've done that, try the push command again

git push heroku master

It should work now.

Answer 2

This is a late answer, but might help someone.

instead of this:

git push master Heroku

try:

git push heroku master

Answer 3

Come in late but in my case:

git push git@heroku.com:appname.git master

did the trick for me! With appname being the name of your heroku app

Answer 4

I have expericed the problem you have. I solved this problem like this

1. make file whatever
2. commit

3. push

   $ touch readme
   
   $ git add .
   
   $ git commit -m "init"
   
   $ git push heroku master
   

I don't know why.

Answer 5

First push your changes to the remote branch before pushing to heroku

git push origin master
git push heroku master 

If you want to push a branch which is not the master branch to heroku

git push origin development_branch
git push heroku development_branch:master

Answer 6

In my case, this happened because I had nothing to push. I had forgotten to do a "git add" first. As soon as I did a "git add" then "git commit" for actual content, the push worked fine.