CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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dbarrera
dbarrera

Reputation: 11

git recognizes directory as file

A recent issue has arised.

I have my local copy of code at ~/code/ directory where I made a git init. Whenever I copied a folder with files within it, git recognized folders and files normally.

This is the output of ls -l of ~/code/:

drwxrwxr-x 2 david david 4096 oct 30 15:20 hw0
drwxrwxr-x 4 david david 4096 oct 30 15:20 hw1
drwxrwxr-x 4 david david 4096 oct 30 15:20 hw1.5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 david david   82 oct 30 15:20 README.md

But today I copied a folder and when I did a git status, git recognized hw2/ folder as a file. Additionally, I removed .git folder and reinitialized git and now every folder is recognized as file.

Now the output is this for git status:

# On branch master
#
# Initial commit
#
# Untracked files:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
#       README.md
#       hw0/
#       hw1.5/
#       hw1/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

All of those four items in color red. hw2/ is not in the list because I moved it to another directory because the code in it I fear it to be lost.

Any ideas why this could be?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 927

Answers (1)

Greg Hewgill
Greg Hewgill

Reputation: 993095

What you have described seems perfectly normal. Yes, Git lists your directories in the "Untracked files" section, but it indicates directories with a trailing /. What that means is Git is not tracking any of the files within that directory.

To remove directories such as hw0/ from your list of untracked files, add one or more files within that directory to Git using git add.

Upvotes: 2

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