git: updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally

Question

I\'m working on a team with a few developers using git on BitBucket. We are all working on a dev branch, not pushing to master until a release.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. It happened that I have created .Readme file on the repository without pulling it first.

You may want to delete .Readme file or pull it before pushing.

Answer 2

The best option for me and it works and simple

git pull --rebase

then

git push

best of luck

Answer 3

you can use

git pull --rebase <your_reponame> <your_branch>

this will help incase you have some changes not yet registered on your local repo. especially README.md

Answer 4

This usually happens when the repo contains some items that are not there locally. So in order to push our changes, in this case we need to integrate the remote changes and then push.

So create a pull from remote

git pull origin master

Then push changes to that remote

git push origin master

Answer 5

Well actually github is much simpler than we think and absolutely it happens whenever we try to push even after we explicitly inserted some files in our git repository so, in order to fix the issue simply try..

: git pull

and then..

: git push

Note: if you accidently stuck in vim editor after pulling your repository than don't worry just close vim editor and try push :)

Answer 6

You need to input:

$ git pull
$ git fetch 
$ git merge

If you use a git push origin master --force, you will have a big problem.