error: 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, I want to push them to the server:

git add xxx.php

git commit -m "TEST"

git push origin master

But the error I get back is:

error: src refspec master does not match any.  

error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://xxxxx.com/project.git'

Answer 1

According to the question you’ve created a repository and created files in the index but you didn’t stage the file for that:

git add <file-name>

Or 

git add .  //for adding all files

Then commit the files using:

git commit -m”initial commit”

Then your files will be saved to the local system and the error is resolved.

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Comments

yes, after stagging all files it worked to me. thanks!

Answer 2

You can do this:

1. Just simply try git show-ref to see what refs do you have. Is there refs/heads/master?

2. You can try git push origin HEAD:master as a more local-reference-independent solution. Now, this explicitly states that you want to push the local ref HEAD to the remote ref master (see the git-push refspec documentation).