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SarahData
SarahData

Reputation: 809

'origin' does not apear to be a git repository

I followed vogella tutorial about GIT, section 17 exercice "Working with (local) remote repository". when executing step 17.3, I got this error :

The current branch master has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

git push --set-upstream ../remote-repository.git master

The steps executed are:

   $repo01>git clone --bare . ../remote-repository.git
   Cloning into bare repository '../remote-repository.git'...
   done.
   $mkdir repo02
   $\repo02>git clone ../remote-repository.git .
   Cloning into '.'...
   done.
   $\repo01>git status
   On branch master
   Changes not staged for commit:
   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   test01
        modified:   test02.txt

    no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
  $repo01>git commit -a -m "Some changes"
  $\repo01>git push ../remote-repository.git
  fatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch.
  To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

    git push --set-upstream ../remote-repository.git master

What can be the reason?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 407

Answers (2)

kowsky
kowsky

Reputation: 14449

As git tells you: The current branch master has no upstream branch. Thus, git does not know to which branch of your remote-repository it is supposed to push your changes.

I can not reproduce this; if I execute your steps, the upstream branch is set. However, to fix this you can do exactly what git tells you: git push --set-upstream ../remote-repository.git master. This tells git that the branch you're currently working on (your local master) pulls from and pushes to the master branch of your remote-repository by default. If this is once set, push will automatically know where to push to in the future.

Did you do anything else than the commands you provided in your question?

Edit: I probably cannot reproduce this because of my custom settings of push.default: I would advice to set it to current with $ git config --global push.default current. This means that git pushes only the current branch and automatically pushes to a remote branch with the same name if it exists. See here at the push.default section for details.

Upvotes: 4

ashanrupasinghe
ashanrupasinghe

Reputation: 756

git push origin master

origin is your remote git branch name, master is your local branch.

Upvotes: -1

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