Git: Message 'src refspec master does not match any' when pushing commits in Git

Question

I clone my repository with:

git clone ssh://xxxxx/xx.git  

But after I change some files and add and commit them, I want to push them to the server:

git add xxx.php git commit -m "TEST" git push origin master 

But the error I get back is:

error: src refspec master does not match any.   error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://xxxxx.com/project.git' 

Answer 1

Maybe you just need to commit. I ran into this when I did:

mkdir repo && cd repo git remote add origin /path/to/origin.git git add . 

Oops! Never committed!

git push -u origin master error: src refspec master does not match any. 

All I had to do was:

git commit -m "initial commit" git push origin master 

Success!

Answer 2

1. Try git show-ref to see what refs you have. Is there a refs/heads/master?

Due to the recent "Replacing master with main in GitHub" action, you may notice that there is a refs/heads/main. As a result, the following command may change from git push origin HEAD:master to git push origin HEAD:main

2. You can try git push origin HEAD:master as a more local-reference-independent solution. This explicitly states that you want to push the local ref HEAD to the remote ref master (see the git-push refspec documentation).