fatal: The current branch master has no upstream branch

I'm trying to push one of my projects to github, and I keep getting this error:

peeplesoft@jane3:~/846156 (master) $ git push 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 origin master 

So I tried it and got this:

peeplesoft@jane3:~/846156 (master) $ git push --set-upstream origin master fatal: Authentication failed 

Another stackoverflow thread suggested I try the following, with disappointing results.

peeplesoft@jane3:~/846156 (master) $ git push -u origin master fatal: Authentication failed 

Then I tried this:

peeplesoft@jane3:~/846156 (master) $ git config remote.origin.push HEAD peeplesoft@jane3:~/846156 (master) $ git push fatal: Authentication failed 

Any hints?

30 Answers

You fixed the push, but, independently of that push issue (which I explained in "Why do I need to explicitly push a new branch?": git push -u origin master or git push -u origin --all), you need now to resolve the authentication issue.

That depends on your url (ssh as in 'git@, or https as in )

For https url:

If your account is protected by the two-factor authentication, your regular password won't work (for https url), as explained here or here.

Same problem if your password contains special character (as in this answer)

If https doesn't work (because you don't want to generate a secondary key, a PAT: personal Access Token), then you can switch to ssh, as I have shown here.

As noted by qwerty in the comments, you can automatically create the branch of same name on the remote with:

git push -u origin head 

Why?

• HEAD (see your .git\HEAD file) has the refspec of the currently checked out branch (for example: ref: refs/heads/master)
• the default push policy is simple

Since the refpec used for this push is head: (no destination), a missing :<dst> means to update the same ref as the <src> (head, which is a branch).

That won't work if HEAD is detached though.

Also you can use the following command:

git push -u origin master 

This creates (-u) another branch in your remote repo. Once the authentication using ssh is done that is.

If you define the action git push it should take it if no refspec is given on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command line.

Just do it:

git config --global push.default current 

then

git push 

Apparently you also get this error message when you forget the --all parameter when pushing for the first time. I wrote

git push -u origin 

which gave this error, it should have been

git push -u origin --all 

Oh how I love these copy-paste errors ...

Please try this scenario

git push -f --set-upstream origin master 

You need to configure the remote first, then push.

git remote add origin url-to-your-repo 

Actual Instructions

use this command first before you push in to the branch

git config --global push.default current 

After executing the above command use git push command.

on a very simple side, once you have other branches, you can't just use for pushing a branch

git push 

But you need to specify the branch now, even if you have checkout the branch you want to push, so

git push origin <feature_branch> 

Where can be even the master branch

Well, I was having the same trouble while uploading and I resolved it by doing the same thing which it says to do: Earlier I was trying to push through terminal to my repository in linux by https like

git push 

But was not getting any result and hence I went down deeper and tried:

git push --set-upstream master 

And it worked. Thus then you will get prompted with username and password. I also generated a token and instead of Password I pasted the token and thus, being done successfully.

1. To generate a token go to your Github account and in Developer Settings and then create another token.
2. After getting that, copy that token and paste in the password prompt when it's been asked.

I made the simple error of forgetting to commit:

git commit -m "first commit" 

then git push origin master worked.

It means that you don't have your branch(the branch that you want to push) in your remote repository, in other words it does not exist in your remote repository(it wasn't created yet)... So use this Code:

git push -u origin 'your branch name' 

this code will create your branch in your remote repository and will push it...

I had the same problem

I resolved it that used below command

$ git branch --set-upstream develop origin/develop 

and it will add a config in the config file in the .git folder.

First use git pull origin your_branch_name Then use git push origin your_branch_name

There is a simple solution to this which worked for me on macOS Sierra. I did these two commands:

git pull --rebase git_url(Ex: ) git push origin master 

If it shows any fatal error regarding upstream after any future push then simply run :

git push --set-upstream origin master 

If you constantly get the following git error message after attempting a git push with a new local branch:

fatal: The current branch has no upstream branch.

To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

git push --set-upstream origin <branchname> 

Then the issue is that you have not configured git to always create new branches on the remote from local ones.

The permanent fix if you always want to just create that new branch on the remote to mirror and track your local branch is:

git config --global push.default current 

Now you can git push without any errors!

For me, it was because I had deleted the hidden .git folder.

I fixed it by deleting the folder, re-cloning, and re-making the changes.

Encountered just about the same problem, but not from the master branch. I tried to push two (2) branches to my remote repository, by using the $ git push command; which unfortunately threw up the:

fatal: The current branch <branch-name> has no upstream branch. To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use git push --set-upstream origin <branch-name> 

I got it fixed with this command below:

$ git push -u origin --all 

PS: The solution provided here should, i believe, make it easier for git to track out branches remotely; this could come in-handy someday, when working on projects with couple of branches.

1. A computer and your github associated. Use SSH. Computer code so you do not need to submit verified enter image description here

2. git can not manage empty folder. So you have to write such a readme.md saved in a file. Otherwise you will not find the file.

3. Your local project is nothing new projects move over. Please

git init

git remote add origin +"githublink"

git add .

git commit -m "" go again.

4. then git pull origin master (the key)

5. At last git push origin master (solve all problem).

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If you are trying to push your code direct to the master branch then use command

git push origin master 

It helps me.

I also got the same error.I think it was because I clone it and try to push back. $ git push -u origin master This is the right command.Try that

Counting objects: 8, done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 691 bytes | 46.00 KiB/s, done. Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done.

• [new branch] master -> master Branch master set up to track remote branch master from origin.

  It was successful. Try to create new u branch 

I had the same problem, the cause was that I forgot to specify the branch

git push myorigin feature/23082018_my-feature_eb 

For me, I was pushing the changes to a private repo to which I didn't had the write access. Make sure you have the valid access rights while performing push or pull operations.

You can directly verify via

If you are on any branch, you can use this:

git push origin head -u 

This will automatically create new branch of the same name on the remote.

commit your code using

git commit -m "first commit" 

then config your mail id using

git config user.email "" 

this is work for me

The thing that helped me: I saw that the connection between my directory to git wasn't established - so I did again: git push -u origin main

Different case with same error (backing up to external drive), the issue was that I'd set up the remote repo with clone. Works every time if you set the remote repo up with bare initially

cd F:/backups/dir git init --bare cd C:/working/dir git remote add backup F:/backups/dir git push backup master 

In my mind, this is just a wrong default git behavior. Having reviewed all options support by git, also reviewed the relevant git code:

The best solution I would suggest it simply override the push default command:

git config --global alias.pu 'push -u' 

This basically changes the default behavior of push so that makes sense.

In my case, I have a local branch called Master, whereas master is on Github. I simply rename my Master -> master and checkout to master. And then push it. It works for me.

To resolve this issue, while checking out the code from git itself, u need to give the command like below:

git checkout -b branchname origin/branchname

Here, by default we are setting the upstream branch, so you will not be facing the mentioned issue.

For me the problem come from the name of my branch : "#name-of-my-branch", without "#" it's work fine!