'heroku' does not appear to be a git repository

Question

When I try to push my app to Heroku I get this response:

fatal: \'heroku\' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repositor         


        

Answer 1

Following official Heroku article:

Initialize GIT

$ cd myapp
$ git init

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "my first commit"

Then create (initialize) heroku app with:

$ heroku create YourAppName

Lastly add git remote:

$ heroku git:remote -a YourAppName

Now you can safely deploy your app with:

$ git push heroku master

You should wait for some time and see if you don't get any error/interrupt on console while deploying. For details look at heroku article.

Answer 2

Might be worth checking the config file in the .git folder. If the heroku parameters are missing then you´ll get this error heroku param

[remote "heroku"]
    url = git@heroku.com:`[Your heroku app].git
    fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/heroku/*

the .git folder should be in the local computer file directory for the app you created in heroku. e.g C:\Users\You\Your app.git

Hope this helps

Answer 3

If this error pops up, its because there is no remote named Heroku. When you do a Heroku create, if the git remote doesn’t already exist, we automatically create one (assuming you are in a git repo). To view your remotes type in:

“git remote -v”. # For an app called ‘appname’ you will see the following:

$ git remote -v
heroku git@heroku.com:appname.git (fetch)
heroku git@heroku.com:appname.git (push)

If you see a remote for your app, you can just “git push master” and replace with the actual remote name.

If it’s missing, you can add the remote with the following command:

git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:appname.git

If you’ve already added a remote called Heroku, you may get an error like this:

fatal: remote heroku already exists.

so, then remove the existing remote and add it again with the above command:

git remote rm heroku

Hope this helps…

Answer 4

I've seen all the answers here and the only thing missing is after going through these steps:

$ git add .
$ git commit -m "first heroku commit"

You should run the command below:

$ heroku git:remote -a <YourAppNameOnHeroku>

And lastly, run this:

$ git push -f heroku <NameOfBranch>:master

Notice I used <NameOfBranch> because if you're currently in a different branch to master it would still throw errors, so If you are working in master use master, else put the name of the branch there.

Answer 5

I had to run the Windows Command Prompt with Administrator privileges

Answer 6

For me the answer was to cd into the root directory of the app before running heroku create or git push heroku master