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Abdelrahman Mohamed Allam •

Hi @villelmo,

It seems like you're trying to push changes to a branch named "main" that does not exist in your local git repository or in the remote repository.

list your remote branches

git branch -a
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if you find the repo try

git push origin HEAD:main
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This will push your changes to the default branch named "main" in the remote repository.

If there is no branch main, then need to create it,

git checkout -b main
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Then add and commit, following with push

git add .
git commit -m "commit message"
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William Torrez • • Edited 
git checkout main
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fatal: A branch named 'main' already exists.

Get the same problem

git push origin master:master main:main
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fatal: 'origin' does not appear to be a git repository
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

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William Torrez • 
 main
* master
  remotes/pb/main
  remotes/pb/master
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Abdelrahman Mohamed Allam •

it should go something like this

git push origin master:master main:main
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