git - Push to Heroku denied - "failed to push some refs to 'heroku"

Question

I should start by saying I'm totally new to Heroku, and it's all looking pretty to foreign to me right now.

Anyway, I've done the Heroku getting started tutorial, uploading a clone git repo, and this works fine.

I'm now trying to accomplish this with some of my own code, but struggling.

1. First, I go to my app directory in bash.
2. Then I run heroku create. This is successful.
3. I then run git push heroku master as instructed in the tutorial, and I receive the following errors:

error: src refspec master does not match any.

error: failed to push some refs to 'heroku'

Would appreciate if someone can explain what I am missing here? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It seems that you have not initiated your master branch properly. Have you commited your files? Try (assuming you are on master branch):

git add .
git commit -m "First commit"
git push heroku master:master

Another, more direct approach, is to push the HEAD:

git push heroku HEAD:master