Question

I am a git newbie. I just created a new project with just 4 new files test1 test2 test3 test4. Then all I did are the following:

$ git init
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "VERY 1st commit"

as simple as that.

then i added a remote repo is also an entirely new repo i just created in bitbucket.org

$ git remote add rakspace http://[e-mail]/syedrakib/mysamplegit
$ git push rakspace

as you can tell it’s entirely new workspace being pushed into an entirely new repo. it returns this:

Everything up-to-date

what is it i am doing wrong here? Clearly the source files of the remote repo are NOT getting updated.

EDIT: I have got 2 branches in my local repo: *master* and *new_branch*

Answer 1

The default behavior of git push is to push “matching” branches. That means any branches on your side that have a branch named the same thing on the other side get pushed. In a brand new repository, there are no branches. Therefore no branches match. You can cause a branch with a name matching your branch to be created on the remote using git push <remote name> <branch name>. In your case: git push rakspace master

You can find out about and change the push settings by looking for push.default in the git config documentation.