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Development Tools Git Basics Branches Beginning to Branch

Posted by Mathew Leland
Mathew Leland
19,236 Points

Cannot create a git branch on Mac OSX

In Terminal, when I type:

git branch foo_feature

I get the message:

fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master'.

All I have done in this directory is git init a repository. Is there another step I'm missing? Or a naming convention that I'm missing?

1 Answer

David Magaña
David Magaña
4,170 Points

Maybe it is because you can't create a branch if you don't have at least 1 commit on your master branch yet.

Mathew Leland
Mathew Leland
19,236 Points

I think that was the issue. Totally makes sense :)