Answer: Github "Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally."

answer re: "Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally." after creating a new repository on GitHub

Aug 20 '13

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This happens if you initialized a new github repo with README and/or LICENSE file

git remote add origin [//your github url]
//pull those changes

git pull origin main 

// or optionally, 'git pull origin main --allow-unrelated-histories' if you have initialized repo in github and also committed locally

//now, push your

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