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imasnake
imasnake

Reputation: 355

Why can I not commit? (Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master', no changes added to commit)

I have been having some trouble committing a file to GitHub. I can make it to git add, but soon as I try $ git commit -m 'my message' I get an error, not allowing me to complete the process of adding a file. 

$ git add HelloWorld.md

$ git commit -m 'Hello world'

I get the following answer (deleted: README.md & .DS_Store are in red):

On branch master

Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

Changes not staged for commit:
        deleted:    README.md

Untracked files:
        .DS_Store

no changes added to commit

Upvotes: 13

Views: 31561

Answers (5)

oth man
oth man

Reputation: 303

For some reason In my case I was in the wrong project In the vscode terminal

I was trying to add a new commit to The other project which was up to date and It gave me this " Your branch is up to date " so all you need to do In this situation Is click add icon In the terminal and open new one In the right location

Upvotes: -1

Rod
Rod

Reputation: 367

I added the same file again and it worked. actually the whole dir: git add .

Upvotes: 0

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 1273

If you changed the file but there is still nothing to commit, maybe you didn't add the file to git. (or replaced it after adding). Try adding the file before committing:

git add filename.ext

Or simply add the whole dir:

git add .

Upvotes: 10

jub0bs
jub0bs

Reputation: 66344

You have nothing to commit. More specifically:

  • README.md was a tracked file, but you deleted without using git rm README.md. Git detects that the file has been deleted, but you still have to stage that deletion if you want the latter to be effective in the next commit.

  • .DS_Store is an untracked file; as such, it cannot be part of the next commit. (By the way, you should ignore such files globally.)

  • git add HelloWorld.md has no effect: the file is being tracked by Git, but there is nothing to stage in there, because you simply haven't made any changes to it since the last commit.

    How can I tell? If HelloWorld.md were a previously untracked file or if it were a tracked file which you changed since the last commit, git add HelloWorld.md would have successfully staged those changes; there would have been something to commit, and you would have been able to successfully commit.

Make some changes, stage them, and then you'll be able to commit. Finally,

Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'

simply means

You haven't created any commits on master since you pushed to origin/master.

Nothing to be alarmed about.

Upvotes: 1

Oldskool
Oldskool

Reputation: 34867

Apparently you did not change anything in the HelloWorld.md file (or it doesn't exist at all), so there is nothing to commit. If you just want to add an "empty" file, make sure to touch HelloWorld.md first, so the file is actually created. If it does exist, edit it (using vim HelloWorld.md for example) and make sure to save the changes in your editor when you're done.

Once you've done that and there are actual changes to the file, you should be able to commit it.

Upvotes: 3

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