GitHub: 'master' not visible in List of branches

Question

I am very new to Git.

• I created a new repository - Tutorial
• Under that I created two branches - demo-branch and tutorial-branch , one by one, and did some changed and pushed
• I checked in GitBash, that I have three branches - master and above two

However, when I visit GitHub online in browser, it shows me only two branches

Why is master branch not shown ? Am I conceptually missing something ?

Answer 1

If you didn't push master to GitHub, you can't see master branch on GitHub.

I assumed you created Tutorial repo from bash, not from GitHub. master branch is automatically created by Git on a new repository but not pushed. To get the branch on GitHub do git push origin master:master .

This command push onto origin git repository the local branch master to remote branch master and create it if needed.

• origin is the default name of remote repository. In your case this is your GitHub repository.
• Local master branch is your ... local master branch
• Remote branch master is the branch on origin remote, so GitHub. This one is updated when user push onto master branch