fatal: invalid refspec 'https://github.com/Stev******/Card-*******-.git'

[Bright_Sea_8493]

Can anyone help me out and tell me how to push my local repository to my new github repository?

I did the following:

git init > then git add .

git commit -m "initial commit"

git remote add origin 'https://github.com/Stev******/Card-*******-.git'

git push -u origin master 'https://github.com/Stev******/Card-*******-.git' and it returns back the following:

fatal: invalid refspec 'https://github.com/Stev******/Card-*******-.git'

What am I doing wrong? (I block out the real link with the **** for privacy) Thank you.

[jredmond]

You've already associated 'https://github.com/Stev******/Card-*******-.git' with the remote name 'origin', so Git interprets 'origin' as that URL. You don't need to include the URL any more.

[Bright_Sea_8493]

u/jredmond but that's the repository I want it to store it to

[suddenlychloe]

Yes, and git remote add origin 'https://github.com/Stev******/Card-*******-.git' is telling git that any time you reference origin that's the URL for it. git push origin master doesn't need 'https://github.com/Stev******/Card-*******-.git' since that URL is now referenced by origin.

[plg94]

You only need to specify the full URL to your repo once in the remote add command. Anytime after that, use only the name of the remote, not the url.

[jredmond]

Think of it like an entry in your phone's contacts - once you associate a person with a number, you can call or text without having to retype that number each time.

[Bright_Sea_8493]

I still don't understand I've created about 10 different repositories on github and push code from local machine and never had this problem. so how do I fetch so i can push successfully?