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My repository was Porfolio3, and I changed it to Portfolio (without the 3) on GitHub. I'm still working on it, and I don't want to lose it. I went into my local code and typed "git push" as usual but I got this:

D:\GitHub\01 Portfolio> git push To https://github.com/moki929/Portfolio ! [rejected] master -> master (fetch first) error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/moki929/Portfolio' hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do hint: not have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing hint: to the same ref. You may want to first integrate the remote changes hint: (e.g., 'git pull ...') before pushing again. hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

I've tried many things like:

PS D:\GitHub\01 Portfolio> git remote add origin-push $(git config https://github.com/moki929/Portfolio.git)

but I get this

error: invalid key: https://github.com/moki929/Portfolio.git

My git status:

PS D:\GitHub\01 Portfolio> git status On branch master Your branch is ahead of 'destination/master' by 3 commits. (use "git push" to publish your local commits)

I tried to rename origin to destination. Thinking that would fix it. Do I need to change back to origin? I just want to push to GitHub.

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  • What about git remote --set-url origin <url>? Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 4:46
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    The error message told you to sync the remote first. You could try git fetch --all first, then git rebase origin/master or git merge origin/master. Then you can try to git push again. Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 5:49
  • PS D:\GitHub\01 Portfolio> git fetch --all Fetching destination From github.com/moki929/Portfolio Fetching origin-push ...Portfolio> git rebase origin/master fatal: invalid upstream 'origin/master' ...Portfolio> git merge origin/master merge: origin/master - not something we can merge ...Portfolio> git push To github.com/moki929/Portfolio ! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward) ... ...Portfolio> git remote --set-url origin github.com/moki929/Portfolio.git error: unknown option `set-url' Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 23:35
  • It worked! I had to change it back with: git remote rename destination origin ... all those errors above didn't happen again. Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 23:49

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Make sure you are in "origin", fetch, rebase, merge, and push. As below:

git remote rename destination origin git fetch --all git rebase origin/master git merge origin/master git push

Thanks Chuck Lu! https://stackoverflow.com/users/13338936/chuck-lu

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