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Ahmad Saad
Ahmad Saad

Reputation: 803

Change local repo from master to main to push files to master repo at github

I am trying to push files to GitHub main repo as the master branch name is changed to main, but after git init > and git remote add > as git initialized a master branch on my local,
how to push change and push to main check the error below.

$ git push origin/main main
error: src refspec main does not match any.
error: failed to push some refs to 'origin/main'

Upvotes: 1

Views: 224

Answers (2)

Enrico Campidoglio
Enrico Campidoglio

Reputation: 59923

I would suggest you change the upstream branch for your local master to origin/main with the --set-upstream-to option:

git switch master
git branch --unset-upstream
git branch --set-upstream-to origin/main

From that point on, you can just use the regular git pull/git push from your master branch and Git will interact with the main branch on the origin remote.

If you like to keep things in sync, you can also rename your local master branch to main with the --move option:

git branch --move master main

Upvotes: 1

Ôrel
Ôrel

Reputation: 7622

Several solution

Change default branch name

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Create a main branch

git checkout -b main

Push your master branch to the origin main

git push origin/main master

Upvotes: 1

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