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,

Answer 1

I faced the same problem, and I used --allow-empty:

$ git commit -m "initial commit" --allow-empty
...
$ git push
...

Supplement

One of main reasons of this problem is that some Git servers, such as BitBucket, don't have their master branch initialized when a fresh repository is cloned.

Answer 2

Short answer: This error means the branch you want to push in remote doesn't exist!

In my case, starting from October-2020, the repos created since then had the main branch instead of the previous master branch. So all I had to do this:

git push -u origin main 

• you may skip -u flag if the upstream is set( Like in case you had cloned it already)

Bingo! That worked for me! Hope that helps! Happy coding!

Answer 3

1. My changes were already committed
2. Force push still gave me the same error.

So I tried Vi's solution:

git push origin HEAD:<remoteBranch> 

This worked for me.

Answer 4

To check the current status, git status.

And follow these steps as well:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "message"
git remote add origin "github.com/your_repo.git"
git push -u origin master

Answer 5

I had the same problem when I missed to run:

git add .

(You must have at least one file, or you will get the error again.)

Answer 6

I had the same problem. I did it by the following steps:

1. git commit -m 'message'
2. git config --global user.email "your mail"
3. git config --global user.name "name"
4. git commit -m 'message'
5. git push -u origin master