Git add all subdirectories

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I m having trouble adding a folder and all of it s subdirectories to my git repository  I realized this is a very popular question after doing some googling and I ve tried each suggestion with no luck  specifically the suggestion from the man page on git-add  I even tried git add -A with no success  For simplicity sake  say I initialized my git repository as Dir1  Then I have the following directory structure of files   Dir1 file1-1 txt Dir1 file1-2 txt Dir1 Dir2 file2-1 txt Dir1 Dir2 Dir3 file3-1 txt   My real files have subdirectories that span 5-6 levels deep  so is there a git command to add all the files in each subdirectory to my repository  Right now  when I do the suggestion from the man page git add Dir1    I can see Dir2 in my repo  but it shows up as a green folder and I can t open it  which leads me to believe that all the files folders in Dir2 did not get added  Any help would be greatly appreciated  I m a new git user  less than a week of using it   so try and keep your instructions at a beginner s level

User · Accepted Answer

Do   git add     while in the root of the repository  It will add everything  If you do git add    it will only add the files   points to  The single dot refers to the directory   If your directory or file wasn t added to git index repo after the above command  remember to check if it s marked as ignored by git in  gitignore file

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Most likely  gitignore files are at play    Note that  gitignore files can appear not only at the root level of the repo  but also at any sub level    You might try this from the root level to find them   find   -name   gitignore   and then examine the results to see which might be preventing your subdirs from being added   There also might be submodules involved  Check the offending directories for   gitmodules  files

User · Answer

Simple solution   git rm --cached directory git add directory

User · Answer

I saw this problem before  when the  sub folder I was trying to add had its name begin with   Something    I removed the underscores and it worked  Check to see if your folder has characters which may be causing problems

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You can also face problems if a subdirectory itself is a git repository - ie  has a  git directory - check with ls -a   To remove go to the subdirectory and rm  git -rf

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I can t say for sure if this is the case  but what appeared to be a problem for me was having  gitignore files in some of the subdirectories  Again  I can t guarantee this  but everything worked after these were deleted

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Also struggled  but got it right typing  git add -f   JS    where JS was my folder name which contain sub folders and files

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