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TenaciousJay
TenaciousJay

Reputation: 6870

Xcode error message "The remote repository rejected commits" when pushing to Github

I have a branch named develop that I pulled on, added some code, committed, pulled again, and am now trying to push but I get the following error message in Xcode:

The remote repository rejected commits.
Make sure you have permission to push to the remote repository and try again.

I switched to a different branch named feature and was able to pull and push on it fine.

I went to Xcode > Preferences > Accounts > Repositories then clicked on the repository I'm working on and verified my credentials and even re-entered them. But I still have the same problem (the feature branch works but the develop one throws up that message).

Why does the push work on one branch but not the other?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6188

Answers (3)

CrystalMath
CrystalMath

Reputation: 41

This happened to me because I branched off of our main branch and named my branch incorrectly, so I branched off that misspelled branch to fix the name and then deleted it which killed the upstream branch for Git.

The solution was to set the upstream via command line: 

git push --set-upstream origin theUpstreamBranchYouWantToSet

Upvotes: 1

Flexicoder
Flexicoder

Reputation: 8491

I got this error today and it wasn't until I tried to commit via another method did I actually find the reason. I had a file that was 230Mb and GitHub doesn't allow files that big (or at least for the account I have). So Xcode just wasn't being very helpful with its error message

Upvotes: 10

matt
matt

Reputation: 534885

GitHub repositories can be configured with branch protection. You probably have permission only to push/pull the feature branch and only to pull (but not push) the develop branch.

Upvotes: 1

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