Emacs magit does not seem to push (No changes on github web. Tried both https and ssh)

Question

In a local repo, I staged all my changes and added a commit message. Then, I pushed my commits using magit-push and pushed to my branch upstream origin/master. Right after I do that, the mini-buffer said something like Git<1> finished. I have tried to setup the repo to use both https and ssh. When I use ssh, magit would ask for the passphrase like the example below. When I use https, it did not ask. Either way, both does not seem to push to github.

In the magit-process buffer, the log looks like this:

Pushing to github.com:username/reponame.git
Enter passphrase for key '......bla blah
To github.com:username/reponame.git
=[up to date]     master -> master
updating local tracking ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master'
Everything up-to-date

I then checked my github via web, and the changes are not pushed. After 5-10 minutes, the changes are still not pushed. Back to emacs, the magit-process buffer still said the same thing "Everything up to date". There are no messages/warnings in the message buffer.

If I try to forcefully quit emacs, I would get an error that an active process is running. There is another buffer that pops up and shows the process

• name: git
• PID number
• status: run
• buffer (magit-process)
• command it runs is: git --no-pager --literal-pathspecs -c core.preloadIndex=true -c log.showSignature=false -c color.ui=false -c color.diff=false commit --

I have to forcefully quit emacs with xkill on Linux to close it. Otherwise, emacs would just stay there and try to run the above command (git --no-pager blah blah).

Note that if I try this on a Terminal, with your typical:

• git add .
• git commit -m "Some messages"
• git push

Then it works for both ssh and https and I can see the updated changes on my github web. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Are you sure you finished the commit correctly? That command that is still running is git commit with some extra options, and the log indicates that git push didn’t have to update anything; the remote already had all the commits.

How did you start the commit, and how did you finalize it?

Edit: From the comments, I see that you saved the commit message, but you didn’t actually commit. Saving with C-c C-s does indeed save the message to disk, but only C-c C-c actually tells git to create the commit.