git error failed to push some refs to remote

Question

When I use the git push origin master this happens.

This is what my working directory and remote repository look like:

Can someone explain to me why I can't push? and why is this happening?

Answer 1

I would advise using:

git pull --rebase

git push

The GitHub repo has seen new commits pushed to it while you were working locally.

Here is the full syntax:

git pull --rebase origin main

git push origin main

After that use, a simple git pull would do the job. In this way, you can replay (the --rebase part) your local commits on top of the newly updated origin/main (or origin/yourbranch: git pull origin yourBranch).

Note: git reset --mixed origin/main can also be written git reset origin/main, since the --mixed option is the default one when using git reset.

I hope this helps.