Git commit -a untracked files

Question

When I do a git commit -a  I am seeing the following        Please enter the commit message for your changes  Lines starting     with     will be ignored  and an empty message aborts the commit      On branch better tag show     Changes to be committed         use  git reset HEAD  lt file gt      to unstage          modified       assets stylesheets application css     modified       views pages home html erb     modified       views tags show html erb     modified          db seeds rb         Untracked files         use  git add  lt file gt      to include in what will be committed             assets stylesheets         views pages    What does those untracked files mean  All the changes have been indeed tracked  I don t understand why git is warning me about untracked files here    EDIT   Ok I see a lot of confused replies  This is what happens after I git commit -a this     On branch master nothing to commit  working directory clean    As you can see  there is NOTHING other than those four files that had changes applied   My question should be rephrased as follows  Why is git warning me about untracked files when all of the changes in this commit has been tracked    In other words  is the untracked warning in the git commit message unnecessary

User · Answer

You should type into the command line  git add --all   This will commit all untracked files  Edit   After staging your files they are ready for commit so your next command should be  git commit -am  Your commit message

User · Answer

If you are having problems with untracked files  this 3-line script will help you   git rm -r --cached   git add -A git commit -am  fix    Then just git push

User · Answer

Make sure you re in the right directory  repository main folder  in your local git so it can find  git folder configuration before you commit or add files

User · Answer

git commit -am  msg  is not same as git add file and git commit -m  msg   If you have some files which were never added to git tracking you still need to do git add file     The    git commit -a    command is a shortcut to a two-step process  After   you modify a file that is already known by the repo  you still have to   tell the repo     Hey  I want to add this to the staged files and   eventually commit it to you     That is done by issuing the    git add      command     git commit -a    is staging the file and committing it in one   step    Source   git commit -a  and  git add

User · Answer

First you need to add all untracked files  Use this command line    git add   Then commit using this command line    git commit -a

User · Answer

For others having the same problem  try running    git add   which will add all files of the current directory to track  including untracked  and then use  git commit -a to commit all tracked files   As suggested by  Pacerier  one liner that does the same thing is  git add -A

User · Answer

As the name suggests  untracked files  are the files which are not being tracked by git  They are not in your staging area  and were not part of any previous commits  If you want them to be versioned  or to be managed by git  you can do so by telling  git  by using  git add   Check this chapter Recording Changes to the Repository in the Progit book which uses a nice visual to provide a good explanation about recording changes to git repo and also explaining the terms  tracked  and  untracked

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