Git remote rejected on new commit after successful pull – CPanel

New user to git, I’m running a website accessible via cpanel. Usually use FTP but noticed the git option so giving it a whirl.

Set my public_html directory as git remote, cloned local repository onto my laptop (although nothing was copied to my local directory, another issue.)

Right now I’m setup and have done a few commits and pushed successfully but ran into an issue now where every time I commit and push I get this response –

[remote rejected] master -> master (Working directory has unstaged changes)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://mywebsite/public_html/'

I’ve used git reset --hard origin/master to reset and I can successfully fetch, pull and push without any error.

PC MINGW64 ~/Desktop/mywebsite (master)
$ git pull
Already up to date.

$ git push
Everything up-to-date

So I created a file for testing, git_commands.txt

$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        git_commands.txt

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

$ git add .

$ git commit -m "added git_command.txt"
[master 695416e] added git_command.txt
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 git_commands.txt

$ git push
Enumerating objects: 4, done.
Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 405 bytes | 405.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
To ssh://mywebsite/public_html/
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (Working directory has unstaged changes)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://mywebsite/public_html/'

Any assistance would be appreciated, seems everything I do gets the above error as soon as I attempt to push even though on the surface I’m all ‘up to date’.