How to push local changes to a remote git repository on bitbucket

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Joel picture Joel · Oct 7, 2011 · Viewed 222.5k times · Source

I'm testing out Git and Bitbucket.

I've created a repository on Bitbucket and have created a local copy of the repo and I am committing files into it. I can't seem to push the files from my local repository to the remote repository.

Here's what I'm doing:

git clone https://[email protected]/me/test.git
cd test
touch dummy
git add dummy
git commit dummy -m "my first git commit"
git push

The final line outputs:

Everything up-to-date

And when I log on to Bitbucket I cann't see my dummy file.

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT:

Doing this worked:

 git push origin master:master

Any explanations as to the difference between this and a simple git push?

Answer

Chuck Callebs picture Chuck Callebs · Oct 7, 2011

Use git push origin master instead.

You have a repository locally and the initial git push is "pushing" to it. It's not necessary to do so (as it is local) and it shows everything as up-to-date. git push origin master specifies a a remote repository (origin) and the branch located there (master).

For more information, check out this resource.

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