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Irina Rapoport
Irina Rapoport

Reputation: 1692

Convert a git subproject into a regular folder

I have a subdirectory inside my git project that already has a .git repository in it. Historical reasons, no particular planning.

I then tried to push this larger project into github.

It did not push the subdirectory with .git as I hoped it would.

I need to push it, so I figured out the quickest way to do it would be to remove the .git folder from the subproject, right?

Wrong. Git is still treating that folder as a subproject and not committing (and consequently, not pushing).

I just need to push the whole thing upstream, one way or the other. How do I do it?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2632

Answers (1)

holtc
holtc

Reputation: 1820

You probably also need to stop tracking the file. Try git rm --cached filename_here. Then git add the changes, then git commit

Upvotes: 3

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