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Nikola Stojaković
Nikola Stojaković

Reputation: 2305

How to add folder from public_html to GitHub repository?

I made a GitHub repository for my PHP project. All files are located in /home/nikola/public_html/todo/. However, I don't know how to add it. First time I made it by typing this:

git add ~/public_html/todo

This time, it just doesn't work. When I try to do: git add ~/public_html/todo and type git status it says that one file is not yet commited (todo) but that's directory with files and directories in it! I can't find solution. I have cloned repository normal in /home/nikola/todo and tried to do this.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 667

Answers (3)

Maksim Solovjov
Maksim Solovjov

Reputation: 3157

You seem to have something wrong with your github repository layout. The files that you want to add to your repository must be within the repository source tree.

The way I understand it, your git repo is in ~/todo and you want to add files from ~/public_html/todo, but this is not how git works. Copy your files into ~/todo (cp -r ~/public_html/todo/* ~/todo/) and try again.

Upvotes: 1

RiggsFolly
RiggsFolly

Reputation: 94672

cd /home/nikola/public_html/todo/

If you have not already initialised a repo start with 

git init

To add all files in this and any subfolders

git add .
git commit

Upvotes: 0

RhapX
RhapX

Reputation: 1683

git add and git commit are two different commands. Simply typing git add filename.ext only tracks the files and makes them ready to be committed.

If you are looking for the files to be shown in your remote repository, you need to git commit the tracked files, and then git push them to the remote repo.

Git has an interactive learning tool that can help you learn and understand Git. I recommend checking it out until you are comfortable using the version control software.

Upvotes: 0

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