I have tried for the first time to upload files from my local computer to github.

On trying to upload them I get the error

```
error: src refspec master does not match any.
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://github.com/name/file.git'

```

I have looked around stackoverflow for similar issues and found [This question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12461682/github-file-not-getting-committed) which I thought had answered my question. I added 

```
git remote rm origin
git remote add origin https://github.com:name/file.git

```

and nothing happend, what else do I need to add?

===EDIT===

after further looking I found that 

git commit -m 'my message' would do it

This returned the message

```
5 files changed, 162 insertions(+)

```

On going to my repository nothing has been added