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Reena Verma
Reena Verma

Reputation: 1685

fatal: pathspec 'README.txt' did not match any files

Really getting stuck on this one. I've googled a lot and can't figure out what I've done wrong...

I'm trying to create a new file, via the git add README.txt command in terminal...

(So far I've created a new folder Fundamentals. Created a sub-folder git-practice. And created a git repo via git init command)

However, when I try and add a file in fundamentals/git-practice, i get the following error..

fatal: pathspec 'README.txt' did not match any files

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.. everything seems to make sense. Here's the code:

Reenas-MBP:~ reenaverma$ cd ~

Reenas-MBP:~ reenaverma$ ls
72.png          GitHub          flask-workshop
Applications        Library         fundamentals
Creative Cloud Files    Movies          funny_things
Desktop         Music           get-pip.py
Documents       Pictures        world
Downloads       Public          wwlc
Dropbox         Retrieved Contents

Reenas-MBP:~ reenaverma$ cd fundamentals

Reenas-MBP:fundamentals reenaverma$ ls
git-practice

Reenas-MBP:fundamentals reenaverma$ cd git-practice

Reenas-MBP:git-practice reenaverma$ ls -a
.   ..  .git

Reenas-MBP:git-practice reenaverma$ pwd
/Users/reenaverma/fundamentals/git-practice

Reenas-MBP:git-practice reenaverma$ git add README.txt
fatal: pathspec 'README.txt' did not match any files

Reenas-MBP:git-practice reenaverma$

Upvotes: 17

Views: 62434

Answers (6)

Rad_Lasad
Rad_Lasad

Reputation: 161

Just type in your terminal (e.g. in git bash):

git >> README.md
git add README.md

Upvotes: 16

Code-Apprentice
Code-Apprentice

Reputation: 83577

fatal: pathspec 'README.txt' did not match any files

You get this error because there is no file named README.txt in the current directory. Git is in the business of managing files that you create with other programs, usually a text editor or IDE. git add only adds the file to the index. It does not create any files directly. You need to use another tool to do so. Use your favorite text editor (I suggest Notepad++, Sublime Text 3, or Atom) and create a file with some text.

Upvotes: 11

Dream
Dream

Reputation: 9

The following code works for me 

git add README.txt

Upvotes: 0

Dream
Dream

Reputation: 9

I do following this command (windows10) in terminal and everthing is working

Upvotes: 0

Abuimam
Abuimam

Reputation: 1

I had the same problem and after typing ls I had git display all the files I had in the folder, then I found that I had saved the readme file as readme.txt.txt. Hence I had to rename the file to readme.txt and then I was able to add it successfully.

Upvotes: 0

eis
eis

Reputation: 53553

I'm trying to create a new file, via the 'git add README.txt' command in terminal...

git add does not create a new file. It adds an existing file to be indexed by git. You'll need to create the file first.

Upvotes: 23

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