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Development Tools Git Basics Working With Remote Repositories Pushing and Pulling

Posted by Jake Nisenboim
Jake Nisenboim
3,374 Points

Git Push - No upstream branch

I tried to push changes from my original repository using 'git push our_clone'

however I get the error message:

"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 our_clone master"

I have had this error message at other times ("no upstream branch") when trying to push to the original.

I am using the OS X terminal.

What does it mean?

Thanks !

3 Answers

James Gill
James Gill
Courses Plus Student 34,936 Points

Jake,

You need to configure the remote first, then push. 

git remote add origin url-to-your-repo

Here are instructions.

Brendan Moran
Brendan Moran
14,052 Points
Brendan Moran
Brendan Moran
14,052 Points

I'm having the same problem. I configured the remote first, but it still gave me the "no upstream branch" error. This went both ways, both when I tried to push from the clone, and when I tried to push to the clone from the origin. I configured first, but things still didn't work until I did git push --set-upstream ...

Roman Mayer
Roman Mayer
10,925 Points
Roman Mayer
Roman Mayer
10,925 Points

Same problem here. I had added the remote already :/

Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
24,793 Points
Boban Talevski
Boban Talevski
24,793 Points

I assume this is happening due to different git versions. What I did to make it work at this point was to use the "trick" from a bit earlier in the video to add the branch name, for which you need to add the repository name first, as in:

git push origin new_feature

I didn't want to bother with setting an upstream yet as it's probably another concept not (yet) covered in the video :).

David Bayley
David Bayley
10,312 Points
David Bayley
David Bayley
10,312 Points

Was happening to me then I realized I was trying to push while still checked into "new_feature" branch. Check back into the master of your clone repo and you'll be good to go.