No master branch when creating a repository?

[Alex Scott]

I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, I have never used any type of version control before. I signed up for bitbucket, went through their tutorial with source tree to modify the file and push it back to the repository and had no issues

After creating a repository for some java code on bit bucket (repository is empty at this point), I went to source tree, located the directory where everything was stored, added it to the repository, added a gitignore file and did everything else I was told to do in a brief tutorial I found(including linking sourcetree to this repository).

In the tutorial, and everywhere else, it says I need to click "git flow" to push these files to bitbucket. However when I try, I get an error saying that "The production branch you chose, "master", does not exist." And then it tells me it can't create this branch.

After looking at my repository I see that there is no "master" under the branches, however, in my bookmarks, it says that I am working under the "master" branch. Also, when I tried to create a "master" branch, it won't let me. Does anyone know how to get around this or solve this issue?

[RakeMark]

Just had the same issue and this was top on google with no answer. You need to add something and commit it. Once you do that the master branch will be created in your local repo and you can then push and branch from it. 

[Joy Progga]

Thanks... it did worked !! 

[Denis Lomtev]

Try this:

1. Open terminal (button in SourceTree UI)

2. Type

git checkout -b master

 3. Close terminal

 4. Commit in your brand new master branch

[Brian Geary]

This worked for me - thanks for sharing the tip!

[Peter Roehlen]

We really need a way to automatically create a master branch using the Bitbucket web page.  As it is, it is impossible to create a new repo and integrate it with SAP Web IDE as it expects/needs a branch to do the first commit.

I can't write up instructions for my team to install git and use the command line just to do this one step.

[danielrolonbenitez]

you need to create the readme.md file then create the master branch

[ChipReap]

That only works if you want a readme file in your repository

[Bradley Harrison]

so you cannot use the Bitbucket web interface to create this?  what sense does this make?  nor does it walk you through how to create it. 

[Mohit]

You have to initialize your repository with your username and name, after that your master branch will be created and you will be able to commit your code.

git config --global user.email "your@email.com"
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

[William T Campbell]

Yeah, that seems perfectly rational to continue to leave this out of the interface. 

[jmonkfish]

(Hope Atlassian knows he's being sarcastic).

[Rodrigo Moreira]

Same problem here :(

http://screencast.com/t/c1fDVIb3n

Any help?

Thank you.

[Adrian Cervantes]

in cd proyect - git init 

git add .

git commit -m "initial"

git push -u origin master

that works for me!

[ajkarikari_knowit]

Try this if none else works and lets say that you'r using VS code.

Once you've created your repository on bitbucket, clone it to your local workstation and open VS code and set it to the local folder of your rep.

Open the terminal and run

git push -u origin master

Your terminal should write:

 * [new branch] master -> master
Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'.

This should be it. 

[Dennis Löhmann]

Had the same issue after some merging mess.

Double-Click on Remotes-> origin -> master and check out the master branch again. For some reason, this hasn't been checked out (or was lost) out in my repo.

[Norman Abramovitz]

See if this helps you out.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3623755/why-does-my-git-branch-have-no-master