Troubleshooting misplaced git directory nothing to commit

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I started getting this message  No matter what I edit and try to commit  it says there is nothing to commit  Looks like git does not see my working directory and looking somewhere else    If I run git status it outputs the same   nothing to commit  working directory clean    If I create new branch and edit something  then same thing happens  This started happening when I needed to fix merge clashes  When I wanted to merge my one branch with master branch  I had to manually fix it and I needed my files to look exactly as in that branch overwriting master branch those same files  So I added those files and it let me merge it  But then no matter what I change it shows as there is nothing to commit    What could be done here

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In my case I had previously initialized a git directory where I was trying to create a new one  I just deleted all the old files and started from scratch

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For people working in public open source projects  if you face this behaviour  it is most likely that the file you are editing is excluded from the git repository using  gitignore  I faced the same behaviour  and after hours I found that the file I was making the change is excluded in  gitignore because it is a settings file  and every one will have their own local version

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I have faced the same issue with git while working with angular CLI 6 1 2  Angular CLI 6 1 2 automatically initializes  git folder when you create a new angular project using Angular CLI  So when I tried git status - it was not detecting the whole working directory    I have just deleted the hidden  git folder from my angular working directory and then initialized git repository again with git init  And now  I can see all my files with git status

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Here is another twist on it   My  gitignore file seemed to have been modified   corrupted so that a file I was ignoring   e g      Project Folder StyleCop cache   got changed to this  Note now 2 separate lines    Project Folder StyleCop cache   so git was ignoring any files I added to the project and below   Very weird  no idea how the  gitignore file was changed  but took me a while to spot   Once fixed  the hundreds of css and js files I added went in

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Go to your workspace folder   find  git folder delete the folder and its contents use git init command to initialize    Now it will show what all the files can be committed

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I had the same issue   The branch I was working on wasn t being tracked   The fix was   git push orgin   This fixed it temporarily   To make the changes pertinently I    git config push default tracking

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Don t try commiting   adding files  Just run the following 2 commands           git remote add origin http   xyzremotedir xyzgitproject git     git push origin master

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try removing the origin first before adding it again  git remote rm origin git remote add origin https   github com abc xyz git

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I just had this problem myself because I was in the wrong folder  I was nested 1 level in  so there were no git files to be found     When I execute cd    to the correct directory  I was able to commit  as expected

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if  git is already there in your dir  then follow    rm -rf  git  git init git remote add origin http   xyzremotedir xyzgitproject git git commit -m  do commit  git push origin master

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This must have happened because by mistake you reinitialized git in the same directory   Delete the  git folder using the following command Go to repository you want to upload open the terminal and then use the following commands   remove the  git repository sudo rm -r  git Now again repeat from initializing git repo using git init then git commit -m  first commit  git remote add origin https   github com user name repo git push -u origin master After that enter the username and password and you are good to go

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Found what was wrong  I don t understand how  but  git directory path somehow was changed to other path than I was working in  So then anything I changed was not checked  because git was checking in other place  I noticed it  when I reinitialized it and it showed that it reinitialized entirely different directory  When I cd    from my current directory and cd to it back again and then reinitialized yet again  then it switched back to correct  git directory and started seeing my changes

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On branch master Problem it is committed already nothing to commit  working directory clean  if faced this problem then just only use the following command   git push -u origin master   or  git reset git add   git commit -m  your commit message  git push -u origin master

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Encountered this while using SourceTree  fixed it by    First stash your current uncommitted changes      Apply   Unstash the same changes using Sourcetree     Worked like a charm

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Check the location whether it s the right location of the git project

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For anyone seeing this problem  the simplest solution I found was to just  git clone  your repo and delete the old directory  This should set up your pathing correctly by default

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