Can't push to remote branch, cannot be resolved to branch

Question

I migrated my repos from Bitbucket or Github. I don\'t think this matters but it\'s the only thing different... For a little while I had two remotes set up:

Answer 1

Had the same problem with different casing.

Did a checkout to development (or master) then changed the name (the wrong name) to something else like test.

• git checkout development
• git branch -m wrong-name test

then change the name back to the right name

• git branch -m test right-name

then checkout to the right-name branch

• git checkout right-name

then it worked to push to the remote branch

• git push origin right-name

Answer 2

I was having this issue as well, and it was driving me crazy. I had something like feature/name but git branch -a showed me FEATURE/name. Renaming the branch, deleting and recreating it, nothing worked. What finally fixed it:

Go into .git/refs/heads

You'll see a FEATURE folder. Rename it to feature.

Answer 3

for me I was naming branch as

Rel4.6/bug/Some-short-description

all I had to do is when using

git push origin Relx.x/bug/Some-short-description

to write

git push origin relx.x/bug/Some-short-description

as I used to create branches using small letter r in rel.

so, what caused this issue?

when I listed .git/refs/heads content I found

drwxr-xr-x  4 eslam_khoga  staff   128B Sep 22 20:22 relx.x

but no Relx.x!

and inside it bug and inside bug my branch's name.

So, git try to create a dir with same name but different case letters

but system is not case sensitive.

That's what caused this issue!

Answer 4

If you are in local branch, could rename the branch "Feature/Name" to "feature/Name"

git -m feature/Name

if you have problems to make a git push make a checkout in other branch (ex develop) and return to renamed branch

git checkout feature/Name

and try again your git push

Answer 5

I had the same problem but was resolved. I realized branch name is case sensitive. The main branch in GitHub is 'master', while in my gitbash command it's 'Master'. I renamed Master in local repository to master and it worked!

Answer 6

I solved this in Windows 10 by using cmd instead of GitBash.

It has to do with character case and how git and command lines handles them.