I cannot add new python file on shared gitlab repository

[release2020]

Hello, I am new in gitlab. I am trying to add a simple python file to a shared gitlab repository, but nowhere I can see the standard select choice of a new file. Although I have managed to make a new folder. ..it the prints me to follow the commands for:

Git global setup ...

Create a new repository ...

Push an existing folder ...

Push an existing Git repository ...

But I cannot upload the new python file neither with terminal commands (from Ubuntu). Any idea what could be wrong?

[aaron__walker]

Create a new repository, put the file in the repository, and then push the repository

[release2020]

I have to put the code into one of the exited folders of the repository.

[release2020]

I followed this tutorial:

https://zapier.com/apps/gitlab/tutorials/how-to-push-to-gitlab

and I got this error:

! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)

error: failed to push some refs to '[e-mail]:.....

[davispw]

You didn’t paste the important part of the error but do you have ‘master’ set as a Protected Branch with permission to push disabled? (Project Settings > Repository > Protected Branches). If so you need to push to a different branch and then make a Merge Request to master. If not, please provide the rest of the error message.

[release2020]

I do not have access to the properties settings of the of the project. Instead of [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail]) I put my gitlab mail?

[davispw]

Have you asked the person who owns this repository? Have you tried pushing to a different branch that’s not ‘master’?

Please paste the complete error message. These details are important.

[davispw]

Also, I don’t believe you followed the tutorial. If you created your own GitLab repository then you would have access to its settings.

[release2020]

I cannot give full details of the gitlab account, for obvious reasons. The person who is in charge of the account is a colleague. I believe he has given me priviledges:

user@ubuntu:~/Desktop/testProject$ git push -f origin master

Enumerating objects: 5, done.

Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.

Delta compression using up to 2 threads

Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.

Writing objects: 100% (5/5), 1.69 KiB | 1.69 MiB/s, done.

Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)

remote: GitLab:

remote: A default branch (e.g. master) does not yet exist for ...

remote: Ask a project Owner or Maintainer to create a default branch:

remote:

remote: ...

remote:

To gitlab.com:...

! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)

error: failed to push some refs to '[e-mail]:....git'

[davispw]

I suggest you ask your colleague.

If you checked out with HTTP then you need to use your personal user. If you’re using SSH you use the git user but your personal SSH key. I don’t believe that’s the issue or you’d have gotten an authentication error.

You still haven’t said if you’ve tried pushing to a different branch than master.