Git: 'Master cannot be resolved to branch' after merge
Solution 1
Could it be that you write Master instead of master? If the system is case sensitive they wouldn't match, and lower-case master is the default in most repositories.
Solution 2
Another issue might be this with your workflow:
Created a new branch git branch TestBranch
With the command above, you create a branch, but do not switch to it.
I believe you should checkout manually by git checkout TestBranch
or create the branch with checkout and create it by git checkout -b TestBranch
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Chris
Updated on June 15, 2022Comments
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Chris almost 2 years
Every time I merge a branch back into my master branch, I can no longer push to origin. I get the message
fatal: master cannot be resolved to branch
I made a simple test change:
- Created a new branch
git branch TestBranch
- Made a change to TestBranch and commited
- Checked out back to master
git checkout Master
- Merged TestBranch
git merge TestBranch
The merge seems to have gone fine, but now when I use Git status the Master branch does not tell me that it is ahead of the origin. And when I try to push to origin Master I get the message above.
Does anybody know what is causing this problem?
- Created a new branch