Unable to push local changes live using Git Push Heroku Master

Question

I'm new to GitHub and have gotten myself into a tangle. I've been successfully deploying code to a Heroku / Django app. However, my last commit was unsuccessful. This is my flow...

- Git add .
- Git commit -m "social media icons"
- Git push heroku master

The last command returns....

Fetching repository, done.
Everything up-to-date

Everything is not up to date. One thing I've discovered on my GitHub app is that I have 2 branches "production" and "master". Master was last updated Sept 8th. I've run a few commands including "git pull origin master" and "git push -f" based on other Stack answers. The latter did seem to push something but not the changes in local. Sorry, I'm trying to find my feet here!

Answer 1

If you're on production branch then you will need to do

git push heroku production:master

Heroku will only deploy the master branch so this command is you pushing your local production branch into the master branch on the remote.

Answer 2

So you are on branch production but your other branch master is up to date. If you want to push the current branch you are on, you should explicitly say so: git push heroku production .

I would highly advise you to try git , it's an excellent resource.