I have made changes to stable/xena branch in x/networking-infoblox, then did git review stable/xena All changes are now merged (4 commits) to stable/xena branch in x/networking-infoblox Now, I am trying to update master branch by merging the changes to master and push them. So below are the cmds I am using- git config merge.summary true git checkout master git reset --hard origin/master git branch -f stable origin/stable git merge stable After these cmds, I am able to view all my commits (all 4 commits) locally in master, but when I am trying to run 'git push master' I am getting error- fatal: 'master' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.