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LPGA
LPGA

Reputation: 105

Pushed folder to github contains nothing

I have a directory,spring-boot-test, that I need to upload to github. The directory has child directories and files within them. 

drwxrwxr-x. 23 jenkinsadmin jenkinsadmin 4096 Sep 19 02:33 spring-boot-test

When I push the directory, it shows it as a file in github or it shows there are no child directories under it.

git add .
git push origin master

Another try per comment:

[jenkinsadmin@localhost test]$ git add --all
[jenkinsadmin@localhost test]$ git commit -m "test"
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
        modified:   spring-boot-test (modified content)

no changes added to commit

[jenkinsadmin@localhost test]$ git push
Everything up-to-date

and I get Everything up-to-date, but if I check in github, it has folder symbol but contains nothing.

I do not want to drag and drop using GUI. I am using git command on Linux.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5217

Answers (7)

Naveen
Naveen

Reputation: 500

on the github when i see the contents of the folder it is empty but when i clone it has the data, this is a little annoying to me, I've tried removing .git folder but still no luck, or the arch is built like that.

here is my git repo : https://github.com/adithnaveen/SapientTraining2019Batch/tree/master/whelps%20code

Upvotes: 0

ishwardgret
ishwardgret

Reputation: 1146

You need to commit changes before pushing it to the remote repo:

git add .
git commit -m "Your commit"
git push <remote> <branch-name> 
e.g. git push origin master

Upvotes: 0

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323343

When I push the directory, it shows it as a file in github or it shows there are no child directories under it.

That means it shows a gitlink: a SHA1 reference to the root tree SHA1 of a subrepo.

First remove it from your index:

git rm --cached spring-boot-test

(no trailing /: you are removing a file-ish entry)

Then remove its .git subfolder (if you don't care about the history) of those files, then add, commit and push.

The alternative would be to reference spring-boot-test as a submodule. It would then show up on GitHub as a "file", but this time, cloning your repo would bring spring-boot-test content with it.

Upvotes: 4

LPGA
LPGA

Reputation: 105

Thanks for the all the suggestions here. The local folder appeared to have hidden github files (.github). I removed any hidden files related to git and github. I can see all the sub folders and files are populated in github now.

Upvotes: 0

shingo
shingo

Reputation: 27011

You can't add empty folder, see Git FAQ

Upvotes: 0

iBug
iBug

Reputation: 37217

You need to commit the files before trying to push them:

git add --all
git commit -m "message"
git push

Upvotes: 2

markb
markb

Reputation: 279

git commit -m "some message" (do this after git add .)

Upvotes: 0

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