You are on a branch yet to be born

Question

Im have strange problem:

$ cd ~/htdocs  $ mkdir test  $ cd test  $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/deep/htdocs/test/.git/  $ git checkout master error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.  $ git checkout -b master fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born  $ git checkout origin/master error: pathspec 'origin/master' did not match any file(s) known to git.  $ git branch -a (empty this) 

But this is new local empty repo. Where is master branch?

Answer 1

As ever, Git is right, it just has a quirky way of saying it: when you create a repository, the master branch actually doesn't exist yet because there's nothing for it to point to.

Have you tried committing something after your git init? Adding a remote and pulling from it will also work, of course.