Git init: error "src refspec master does not match any"

[peter_b]

[PROBLEM]
Setting up my first Git repository, according to instructions in "Setting up the Server" (git.scm.com).

Executing the following command:

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$ git push origin master

Was followed by this error message:

error: src refspec master does not match any.

Quite cryptic.

[SOLUTION]
The problem was that the folder on the client was empty.
Simply create any file, do a "git add" on it, then commit - and then try pushing it again.

Thanks to Mark Longair (on Stackoverflow), solving it was simple.