src refspec master does not match any when pushing

Question

I cloned my repository with:

git clone ssh://xxxxx/xx.git 

but after I changed some files and add and commit them I want to push them to 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

This just mean you forgot to do the initial commit, try

git add .
git commit -m 'initial commit'
git push origin master

Answer 2

Missing or skipping git add . or git commit may cause this error:

git push -u origin master
Username for 'https://github.com': yourusername
Password for 'https://[e-mail]': 
error: src refspec master does not match any.
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/yourusername/foobar.git'

To fix it, reinitialize and follow the proper sequence:

git init
git add .
git commit -m 'message'
git *create remote
git push -u origin master

Answer 3

In case if you are facing this problem even after doing git init and pushing your initial commit. You can the try the following,

git checkout -b "new branch name"
git push origin "new branch name"

Your code will be pushed as new branch.

Answer 4

I faced same problem and I used --allow-empty.

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

Answer 5

I think its because you pushed an invalid branch. Generally because the repository does not have common master branch(maybe development branch). You can use git branch to see branches.

Answer 6

1. 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 more local-reference-independent solution. This explicitly states that you want to push the local ref HEAD to the remote ref master (see the git-push refspec documentation).