git push heroku master is giving me an error

Question

I have a react app i'm trying to deploy to heroku, However when I run git push heroku master, I'm receiving the error below. How can this be fixed please?

To https://git.heroku.com/getsoundtracks.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://git.heroku.com/getsoundtracks.git'

Answer 1

I am not familiar with Heroku, but this error basically means that you are trying to push directly to a protected branch - master .

This is quite normal actually (even the default IIRC) for the master branch. You will probably need to do one of the following:

• create a "development" branch and push that to the remote and then merge that into master in Heroku (merge request or such?)
• Edit the master branch in Heroku and set it to unprotected