what does it say if you run git status

"Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do hint: not have locally. "

Did you edit any of the files on Github? That message seems to indicate that you edited a file locally, but it is different on Github.

$ git status On branch gh-pages Changes to be committed: (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

new file:   LICENSE
new file:   README.md

Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

deleted:    .hello.html.swp

I did not change anything on github I only create a new repository and add read file and lisence

and when I type $ git commit this error will show up that I cannot do anything I have to close my terminal:(

''

Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting

with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.

On branch master

Changes to be committed:

deleted: .hello.html.swp

new file: LICENSE

new file: README.md

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"~/Desktop/my_first_web_page/.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG" 9L, 260C ''

I don't see any file except license and README.md in my repo!!! on github

$ git commit -m "this is my message" [master 83b54a6] this is my message 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 LICENSE create mode 100644 README.md

Now can you do git push origin master?

and this is my git status $ git status On branch master Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

deleted:    .hello.html.swp

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

error!!!

$ git push origin master To https://github.com/Farnoosh63/my_first_web_page.git ! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward) error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/Farnoosh63/my_first_web_page.git' hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind hint: its remote counterpart. Integrate the remote changes (e.g. hint: 'git pull ...') before pushing again. hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

Did you ever delete the initial local git repo without deleting the remote repo on github, and than recreate a new local git repo and try to push to the already existing repo? That will screw this up like this.

I used $ git rm -r .git

what can I do to fix this issue?

I deleted all my repo on github

i am going to start over,

I have these in my directory

$ls -a . .DS_Store CSS hello.html more info.html .. .git Images more info morestyle.css bradley-johnsons-imac:my_first_web_page bradleyjohnson$

should I remove .git and start over?