Git error: src refspec master does not match any error: failed to push some refs [duplicate]

Answer 1

It doesn't recognize that you have a master branch, but I found a way to get around it. I found out that there's nothing special about a master branch, you can just create another branch and call it master branch and that's what I did.

To create a master branch:

git checkout -b master

And you can work off of that.

Answer 2

One classic root cause for this message is:

• when the repo has been initialized (git init lis4368/assignments),
• but no commit has ever been made

Ie, if you don't have added and committed at least once, there won't be a local master branch to push to.

Try first to create a commit:

• either by adding (git add .) then git commit -m "first commit"
  (assuming you have the right files in place to add to the index)
• or by create a first empty commit: git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial empty commit"

And then try git push -u origin master again.

See "Why do I need to explicitly push a new branch?" for more.