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Kamran Ahmed
Kamran Ahmed

Reputation: 12438

Git : Files are not getting added to the staging area

I have copied an external folder containing some files to my repository

Added this new folder having content inside After that I run git status and it showed that in the modified files as expected

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..I run the git add .

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..it didn't show any errors. Then I run git status again to check if the files have been added to the staging area

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Files weren't moved to the staging area. Why is it not moving this folder to the staging area? How may I move it to the staging area?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1006

Answers (3)

Kamran Ahmed
Kamran Ahmed

Reputation: 12438

I didn't remember that it jobtest was a repository on it's own when I copied that into this repository of my own. I didn't want it as a submodule so I removed .git folder from it to make it an ordinary folder, added and commited and that's it. It all worked.

Upvotes: 1

Waldz
Waldz

Reputation: 104

Are You sure that directory jobtest contains files, because Git don't trac empty directories.

I You really need empty direcotry to be tracked, add at least one file jobtest/.gitignore with contents:

*
!.gitignore

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323333

jobtest is a submodule, not a regular folder.

You need to:

  • go within jobtest, add, commit, push,
  • then go back to the parent repo, add, commit and push (recording the new gitlink which represents the SHA1 of the jobtest repo).

As I explained in "Git diff says subproject is dirty", to get a clean status (ignoring the submodule state), you would need:

git status --ignore-submodules=dirty

Upvotes: 1

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