GIT - pushing to (GitHub) origin master does nothing

Question

I have forked someone's GIT repository:

https://github.com/nippysaurus/toodledo-objc

Cloned it to my local machine, showing the origin with the following information:

* remote origin
  Fetch URL: https://nippysaurus@github.com/nippysaurus/toodledo-objc.git
  Push  URL: https://nippysaurus@github.com/nippysaurus/toodledo-objc.git
  HEAD branch: master
  Remote branch:
    master tracked
  Local branch configured for 'git pull':
    master merges with remote master
  Local ref configured for 'git push':
    master pushes to master (up to date)

When I push my changes to "origin master" git prints "everything up to date", but nothing it updated in my GitHub repo.

What is going on here?

EDIT:

Someone is suggesting that I check thay the files were actually commited... the files were commited, I assure you.

commit 0d3a21616d82c8e5a89baaf85d745fc2cfdf614f
Author: nippysaurus <nippysaurus@example.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 1 13:19:14 2011 +1000

    updated readme

This is the file that was updated:

commit 0d3a21616d82c8e5a89baaf85d745fc2cfdf614f
Author: nippysaurus <nippysaurus@example.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 1 13:19:14 2011 +1000

    updated readme

diff --git a/README.mdown b/README.mdown
index fb8ee14..a71aa57 100644
--- a/README.mdown
+++ b/README.mdown
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ toodledo-objc

 An _unofficial_ toodledo-API implementation in ObjectiveC.

-This library currently uses [version 1.0 of the API](http://www.toodledo.com/info/api_doc.php "Toodledo API 1.0 spec") which has been offic
+This library currently uses [version 1.0 of the API](http://www.toodledo.com/info/api_doc.php "Toodledo API 1.0 spec") which has been offic

 Supported:

Also, I can see that the local version of the file is very different to the version on GitHub, the changes are definately being added to my local repo, but are not being pushed to the remote repo.

Answer 1

It might be the case that you are on another branch than the master branch, then type:

git push origin HEAD:master

so git understands that you want to push up current HEAD and not the master branch.

Answer 2

When it says Up to date it means your local repository and your remote repository are one and the same, that is you have not made any changes to your local repo that needs to be pushed to the remote repo.

If you have indeed changed the files then you must have forgot to commit it.

If you had created new files then you must add it. To add files use

git add .

then to commit all the edited files use

git commit -am "Commit message"

then do

git push origin master

Answer 3

Use these commands. Suppose test.md is the new file you created and you want to push it with the message "Testing"

$ git add test.md
$ git commit -a -m "Testing"
$ git push origin master