github changes not staged for commit

Question

I have a very basic github setup with a readme  a directory  and another directory inside it with an html file  On github I can only view the readme and the first folder but none of its contents  and I am getting this message  tc349 ryntc3  git add   tc349 ryntc3  git status On branch master Changes not staged for commit   use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed   use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory   commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules    modified    week1  modified content   no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     I feel like if I am adding all to be staged that it should not be an issue  Any help

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I tried everything suggested on whole Stackoverflow. Nothing including -a or -am or anything helped.

If you are the same, do this.

So, the problem is, git thinks some of your subdirectory is sub-project in your root-project. At least, in my case it wasn't like that. It was just regular sub-directory. Not individual project.

Move that regular sub-directory which is not being pushed at some temporary location.

Remove the hidden .git folder from that directory.

cd to the root directory.

git init again.

git add . again.

git commit -m "removed notPushableDirectory temporarily"

git push -f origin master

We will have to force it as the git will see the conflict between remote git and your local structure. Remember, we created this conflict. So, don't worry about forcing it.

Now, it will push that sub-directory as sub-directory and not as sub-module or sub-project inside your root-project.

User · Answer

I was having the same problem  I ended up going into the subdirectory that was  not staged for commit  and adding  committing and pushing from there  after that  went up one level to master directory and was able to push correctly

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If it s a submodule you need to cd into it then use git add    amp  amp  git commit -m  Your message   From there you can cd out and push to whichever branch you want

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In my case the problem was the subfolder that I was tying to push was a git folder itself So I did the following  Go inside the subfolder that you want to push and run this   rm -rf  git   Then run this    git rm --cached  lt subfolderName gt    Then come to main project folder and run this  make sure to add   after folder name       git add  lt folderName gt       git commit -m  quot Commit message quot      git push -f origin  lt branchName gt

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I kept receiving the same message no matter what i did   To fix this  i removed  gitignore and i am not getting the Github changes not staged for commit message anymore  Before it would allow me to commit once when i ran git add   and then after it would bring up the same message   Im not sure why the  gitignore file was causing a problem but i added on my local machine and most likely didn t sync it up properly

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For me  I had to commit the subdirectories which had  git in it since both the parent and the subfolder have remotes to push to  And then commit and push the parent directory

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Believe this occurs because you have a child repository  quot submodule quot  that has changes which have not been staged and committed  Had a similar problem  where my IDE kept reporting uncommitted changes  and running the stage  git add    and commit  git commit -m  quot message quot   commands had no effect  Thinking about this in hindsight  it s probably because the child repository had the changes that needed to be staged and committed  not the parent repository  Steps that fixed the issue  cd into the submodule  has a hidden folder named  git  and execute the commands to stage  git add    and commit  git commit -m  quot Update child repo quot   cd    back to the parent repo  and execute the commands to stage  git add    and commit  git commit -m  quot Update parent repo quot    Advice that wasn t helpful  sudo rm -Rf  git    DO NOT USE THIS COMMAND    it permanently deletes submodule repository history  the purpose of GIT  git add -A     Added untracked files  but didn t fix issue

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Is week1 a submodule   Note the relevant part from the output of the git status command       commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules     Try cd week1 and issuing another git status to see what changes you have made to the week1 submodule   See http   git-scm com book en Git-Tools-Submodules for more information about how submodules work in Git

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Have you tried  git add     This recurses into sub-directories  whereas I don t think   does   See here

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WARNING  THIS WILL DELETE THE ENTIRE GIT HISTORY FOR YOUR SUBMODULE  ONLY DO THIS IF YOU CREATED THE SUBMODULE BY ACCIDENT  CERTAINLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN MOST CASES   In my situation  there was a sub-directory which had a  git directory   What I do is simply remove that  git directory from my sub-directory

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This command may solve the problem    git add -A  All the files and subdirectories will be added to be tracked   Hope it helps

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WARNING  THIS WILL DELETE THE ENTIRE GIT HISTORY FOR YOUR SUBMODULE  ONLY DO THIS IF YOU CREATED THE SUBMODULE BY ACCIDENT  CERTAINLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN MOST CASES   I think you have to go inside week1 folder and delete the  git folder   sudo rm -Rf  git   then go back to top level folder and do   git add     then do a commit and push the code

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in my case  I needed a   git add files  git commit -am  what I changed   git push   the  a  on the commit was needed

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