Common Git Issues

Unknown Upstream Error

When you are trying to push code to Github you may see a warning or error saying

fatal: The current branch develop has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

git push --set-upstream origin develop

What this is saying is that you have a local git branch that git does not know where to sync up to. By adding --set-upstream we are tellin local git that whenever we are on the current branch and run push or pull we should connect to the following remote branch origin develop by default. Once your run -set-upstream you will no longer have to specify the branch to push to for this current project and branch.

In comparison, if you want to send your code to a different remote you can specify this. For instance we could send our current branch to the heroku remote and develop branch: git push heroku develop. But, if we run git push, it will continue to send to our default not heroku develop.

GH Page Deploy

Sometimes when running gh-page-deploy you may get an error that says that your local branch is behind from the remote branch. This has to do with the way that we are sending things to github pages and the way that our build step destroys the file history from our dist directory everytime we run it.

To fix this issue, go to your repository on Github. Then click on the "Branches" link at the top:

From there you should see your master, develop, and gh-pages branches. Click on the trash can next to your gh-pages branch and this will delete that branch on Github.

Now you can run gh-page-deploy and you should not have the error happen and your build will be sent to GH Pages!