Why does Git tell me “No such remote 'origin'” when I try to push to origin?

Question

I am very new to Git; I only recently created a GitHub account.

I\'ve just tried to push my very first repository (a sample project), but I\'m getting the following erro

Answer 1

The following simple steps help me:

First, initialize the repository to work with Git, so that any file changes are tracked:

git init

Then, check that the remote repository that you want to associate with the alias origin exists, if not create it in git first.

$ git ls-remote https://github.com/repo-owner/repo-name.git/

If it exists, associate it with the remote "origin":

git remote add origin https://github.com:/repo-owner/repo-name.git

and check to which URL, the remote "origin" belongs to by using git remote -v:

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com:/repo-owner/repo-name.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com:/repo-owner/repo-name.git (push)

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Next, verify if your origin is properly aliased as follows:

$ cat ./.git/config
:
[remote "origin"]
        url = https://github.com:/repo-owner/repo-name.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
:

You need to see this section [remote "origin"]. You can consider to use GitHub Desktop available for both Windows and MacOS, which help me to automatically populate the missing section/s in ~./git/config file OR you can manually add it, not great, but hey it works!

[Optional]
You might also want to change the origin alias to make it more intuitive, especially if you are working with multiple origin:

git remote rename origin mynewalias

or even remove it:

git remote rm origin

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Finally, on your first push, if you want master in that repository to be your default upstream. you may want to add the -u parameter

git add .
git commit -m 'First commit'
git push -u origin master