Issue pushing new code in Github

Question

I created a new repository on Github which has only Readme.md file now.

I have a newly created RoR project which I wanted to push to this repository. Following are the commands I gave in my Terminal to execute this along with the error I am getting.

git remote add origin https://github.com/aniruddhabarapatre/learn-rails.git

After which I entered my username and password

git push -u origin master

Error ---

To https://github.com/aniruddhabarapatre/learn-rails.git
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (fetch first)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/aniruddhabarapatre/learn-rails.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do
hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing
hint: to the same ref. You may want to first merge the remote changes (e.g.,
hint: 'git pull') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

This is my first time pushing my code to a Github repository and I'm lost with the errors. I searched few other questions that are asked here, but none of them had issues first time.

Answer 1

If this is your first push, then you might not care about the history on the remote. You could then do a "force push" to skip checks that git does to prevent you from overwriting any existing, or differing, work on remote. Use with extreme care!

just change the

git push **-u** origin master

change it like this!

git push -f origin master