Git error "error: src refspec main does not match any" when doing git push origin main

[0xwurzel]

I got this error. Per this SO answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/4183856, you need instead to do:

git push origin HEAD:main

Not clear on why, and cba finding out, but it worked. HTH

[alymurtazamemon]

@0xwurzel By default you have a master branch on the GitHub repo, in the older repos master was the initial branch but now the convention is to use main instead. so you have these options to follow:

1. push to master instead of main. For it just does git push -u origin master.
2. convert branch name locally to main and then push. git branch -M main
3. pushing the head of the local branch to a specific branch. git push origin HEAD:main