Git - Won't add files?
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Solution
I found myself in a similar situation as the poster:
If I call "git add .", and then "git status" and it keeps saying "working directory clean" and has nothing to commit.
But I had a different solution than what's here. Since I came to this first, I hope to save others some time.
From the above answers and what I've seen elsewhere, the usual fixes to this problem are:
- Ensure there are actually saved changes on the file in question
- Ensure the file doesn't meet your exclude rules in `.gitignore` and `.git/info/exclude`
- Ensure you're not trying to add an empty folder. Git won't track those. Standard solution is to place a blank file named `.gitkeep` as a placeholder so git will track the folder.
In my case, I had originally tried to create a git repo around an existing repo (not knowing it was there). I had removed the `.git` folder from this sub repo a while ago, but I didn't realize that it was too late, and git was already tracking it as a submodule. You can read more about how these behave and how to remove them here, but
- the solution for me was to simply run `git rm --cached path_to_submodule`.
Problem
I'm having issues where I can't add files to my repository. I'm using GIT on windows, in Aptana Studio for some Ruby development. I've managed to push a few files up to GitHub, but then after this, everything's stopped working. I have for example a new sub-folder in my master directory, with 2 ruby files inside. If I call "git add .", and then "git status" and it keeps saying "working directory clean" and has nothing to commit. I've tried "git add folder/myfile.rb" and still nothing. Anyone any idea's what I can try?