Hi
I am trying to publish my third site, so I fairly new to github, and I am getting: the following error:
$ git branch -M main
error: refname refs/heads/master not found
fatal: Branch rename failed
I have used git-bash, them some code on github account, and on the above stage I got the error.
I am bit stuck, I have search for the error, but I could not fix it.
Did you solve the problem ? I take that error too and couldnāt find solution
Could the branch possibly be named main already? Github changed the default name for the default branch from master to main a while ago.
Can I post the link to the solution here? Its an external sourceā¦ and its in Portuguese:
https://pt.stackoverflow.com/questions/388005/problema-na-hora-de-fazer-push-no-github
Basically what I did was to run the
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/master
them git push
I had this error as well, but it cleared after I made my initial commit. That might be the issue?
I deleted the repo, and started all over again, and it come right. thanks 
same here, it turns out that to make a first push you gotta make a first commit first
I also deleted the repo and it worked!
I may be wrong but I believe that since a branch is a pointer to a commit, if no commit has been created yet, then no branch exists. So you cannot rename a branch which does not exist. The solution would be to do a first commit, which will create a branch (master by default), and then you should be able to rename it (now that it exists).
Run
git config --global user.email āyou@example.comā
git config --global user.name āYour Nameā
and then make your first commit.
$ git commit -m āfirst commitā
and now run the command
$ git branch -M main
It worked for me this way.
Yeah, this here is the simpler solution.
git init
git config --global user.name āyour name hereā
git config --global user.email āyour email hereā
git add .
git commit -m āsome messageā
create new repository in github and copy ssh link
git remote add origin āssh link copied aboveā
git push -u origin master
That worked for me/
For me, the problem was that I had untracked files. Once you āgit add ā¦ā + āgit commit ā¦ā, you can rename the branch.
that was why! thanks!