Why cant I upload any new project to GitHub?-CodePudding

I have been going at the endlessly all semester. I was able to add project from my prior year in school but have been unable to push and new projects to my repository.

I have tried deleting my key credentials via my key access chain. I have created a new GitHub account and tried using that one. I have deleted repositories started from scratch over and over.

I have read question on question and tried following multiple different answers on here. What I wouldn't give to understand what is going on and why nothing seems to allow me to push a project anymore.

The most current attempt was going back to my original GitHub account. I created a brand new repository. I created a new folder and copied my simple python project into it and saved.

error: remote origin already exists.
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git remote rm origin
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git remote rm upstream
error: No such remote: 'upstream'
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git remote add origin https://github.com/stephanieBrandon/GuessARandomNumberGame.git
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git push -u origin main
error: src refspec main does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/stephanieBrandon/GuessARandomNumberGame.git'
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % ls -a
.                               ..                              guess_a_random_number.py
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git init
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
hint: 
hint:   git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint: 
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint: 
hint:   git branch -m <name>
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/stephaniebrandon/Documents/GitHubPortfolio/Python/GuessARandomNumberGame/pythonGame/.git/
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git remote add origin https://github.com/stephanieBrandon/GuessARandomNumberGame.git
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git push -u origin main
error: src refspec main does not match any
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/stephanieBrandon/GuessARandomNumberGame.git'
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % ls -a
.                               ..                              .git                            guess_a_random_number.py
(base) stephaniebrandon@Stephanies-MacBook-Pro-2 pythonGame % git status
On branch master

I am hoping there is just some simple thing I am missing, if someone could explain and help me out it would be much appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

Stephanie, your local branch name is "master", not "main" as you can see from the "git status" output.

If you try "git push origin master", it should work.

CodePudding user response：

You dont have branch main, you have branch master.