Message src refspec master does not match any when pushing commits in Git

Question

I cloned my repository with:

git clone ssh://xxxxx/xx.git 

I want to push them to the server:

git add xxx.php
git commit -m "TEST"
git push origin master

I get this error:

error: src refspec master does not match any.  
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://xxxxx.com/project.git'

Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

Solution.

1. Try git show-ref to see what refs you have. Is there a refs/heads/master?
2. Try git push origin HEAD:master as a more local-reference-independent solution.

For more info:  git-push refspec.

I hope this helps.