Did you solve the problem ? I take that error too and couldn’t 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.

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!

Run

git config --global user.email “you@example.com”
git config --global user.name “Your Name”

and then make your first commit.

$ git commit -m “first commit”

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 ‘your name here’
git config --global user.email ‘your email here’
git add .
git commit -m ‘some message’
create new repository in github and copy ssh link
git remote add origin ‘ssh link copied above’
git push -u origin master

That worked for me/

For me, the problem was that I had untracked files. Once you “git add …” + “git commit …”, you can rename the branch.

that was why! thanks!

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Change branch name from master to main

By google-ing, we'd find a simple command as git branch -m master main which should rename the maste...

You are currently in detached head state. You must checkout a new branch to associate it with the current commit: git checkout -b new_branch

yea it worked for me

Thanks. I had the same issue. Did the first commit. pushed to remote origin first time fine. Thanks again for the tip

It helped me, I needed to make a commit first and after run git branch -M master

i just had to register so i can say this, you saved me a whole lot of stress with this comment… i was using master in my header and i have been stuck at it for hours just for me to stumble upon this comment and i changed “master” to “main” and boom, it worked

thank you buddy…

In my case, I was trying to create the branch in "an existing repository", but this was not existing, so it followed the github rules, and I had to create a new repository from my project's parent directory.
Note: This will not remove anything from your project, all it will do is create a git repository and you can push it to github without any problems.

- echo "# <change-this-by-your-repository-name>" >> README.md
- git init
- git add README.md
- git commit -m "first commit"
- git branch -M home
- git remote add origin https://github.com/<YOUR-USERNAME>/<change-this-by-your-repository-name>.git
- git push -u origin home