Confusing about skillshare push

[romanr]

Created empty repo but not sure what to do,

Git version control
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  Git helps protect your skills from accidental deletion.

  Initialize git in source directory? [Y/n]:
✓ Git initialized with initial commit

would be good to know where did it do that.

Cross-machine sync
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  Set up a git remote to sync skills across machines.

  Set up git remote? [y/N]: y
  Remote URL (e.g., git@github.com:user/skills.git): git@github.com:xxx/skills.git
✓ Git remote configured: git@github.com:xxx/skills.git
 SUCCESS  Remote is empty (3.1s)
→ Push your skills: skillshare push

Built-in skill
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  Install the skillshare skill for AI integration?

  Install built-in skillshare skill? [y/N]: y

Installing skillshare skill
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 SUCCESS  Downloaded default skill: skillshare (38.6s)

Initialized successfully
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✓ Source: /Users/xxx/.config/skillshare/skills
✓ Config: /Users/xxx/.config/skillshare/config.yaml

→ Next steps:
  skillshare sync              # Sync to all targets

→ Pro tip: Let AI manage your skills!
  "Pull my new skill from Claude and sync to all targets"
  "Show me skillshare status"

and now push:

skillshare push

Pushing to remote
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  ERROR   Push failed
fatal: The current branch main has no upstream branch.
To push the current branch and set the remote as upstream, use

    git push --set-upstream origin main

To have this happen automatically for branches without a tracking
upstream, see 'push.autoSetupRemote' in 'git help config'.

→   Remote may have newer changes
→   Run: skillshare pull
→   Then: skillshare push

• I was doing everything from my home directory so far. Does it mean current directory?
• where odes it expect me to run git push from? skillshare directory or my skills repo?

Created main branch in my repo but it didn't help:

Pulling from remote
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  ERROR   git pull failed
From github.com:xxx/skills
 * [new branch]      main       -> origin/main
There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.
See git-pull(1) for details.

    git pull <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

    git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> main

✗ git pull failed: exit status 1

[romanr]

this is what worked for me, instructions could be:

cd ~/.config/skillshare/skills
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main
git pull
skillshare pull
skillshare push

[runkids]

Hi! Thanks so much for taking the time to report this — and for sharing your workaround too, that's really helpful.

You're absolutely right that this is confusing. The issue is that when skillshare init connects to an empty remote repository, it skips setting up the upstream tracking branch (since there's nothing to track yet). This means both skillshare push and skillshare pull end up failing because git doesn't know which remote branch to use.

I'm sorry about the friction — this should have just worked out of the box.

Here's what's coming in the next release:

• skillshare push will automatically detect the missing upstream and use git push -u origin <branch> on the first push, setting up tracking in one step.
• skillshare pull will do the same — pulling from origin/<branch> explicitly and configuring tracking for all future operations.

So after the fix, the whole flow will work seamlessly:

skillshare init          # set up remote to an empty repo
skillshare push          # ✓ just works — upstream is set automatically
skillshare pull          # ✓ just works going forward

No more manual git branch --set-upstream-to needed.

Thanks again for flagging this — it helps make skillshare better for everyone!

[runkids]

Thanks for reporting this! The push/pull first-sync issues have been fixed in v0.15.1.

Specifically:

• push now auto-sets upstream tracking on first push — no more "has no upstream branch" errors
• pull correctly handles empty remotes and sets up branch tracking automatically
• Re-running init --remote on an existing config no longer fails

Please upgrade and let me know if you run into any other issues:

skillshare upgrade