Why does git commit not save my changes

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I did a git commit -m  message  like this    gt  git commit -m  save arezzo files    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            modified    arezzo txt         modified    arezzo jsp   no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     But afterwards  when I do git status it shows the same modified files    gt  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            modified    arezzo txt         modified    arezzo jsp   no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     What am I doing wrong

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I copied a small sub project I had that was under Git source control into another project and forgot to delete the .git folder. When I went to commit I got the same message as above and couldn't clear it until I deleted the .git folder.

It is a bit silly, but it is worth checking you don't have a .git folder under the folder that doesn't commit.

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You could have done a   git add -u -n   To check which files you modified and are going to be added  dry run  -n option   and then  git add -u   To add just modified files

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I had an issue where I was doing commit --amend even after issuing a git add   and it still wasn t working   Turns out I made some  vimrc customizations and my editor wasn t working correctly   Fixing these errors so that vim returns the correct code resolved the issue

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The reason why this is happening is because you have a folder that is already being tracked by Git inside another folder that is also tracked by Git  For example  I had a project and I added a subfolder to it  Both of them were being tracked by Git before I put one inside the other  In order to stop tracking the one inside  find it and remove the Git file with   rm -rf  git   In my case I had a WordPress application and the folder I added inside was a theme  So I had to go to the theme root  and remove the Git file  so that the whole project would now be tracked by the parent  the WordPress application

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I had a very similar issue with the same error message   Changes not staged for commit   yet when I do a diff it shows differences   I finally figured out that a while back I had changed a directories case  ex   PostgeSQL  to  postgresql    As I remember now sometimes git will leave a file or two behind in the old case directory   Then you will commit a new version to the new case   Thus git doesn t know which one to rely on   So to resolve it  I had to go onto the github s website  Then you re able to view both cases   And you must delete all the files in the incorrect cased directory  Be sure that you have the correct version saved off or in the correct cased directory   Once you have deleted all the files in the old case directory  that whole directory will disappear  Then do a commit   At this point you should be able to do a Pull on your local computer and not see the conflicts any more   Thus being able to commit again

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As the message says      no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     Git has a  staging area  where files need to be added before being committed  you can read an explanation of it here    For your specific example  you can use   git commit -am  save arezzo files     note the extra a in the flags  can also be written as git commit -a -m  message  - both do the same thing   Alternatively  if you want to be more selective about what you add to the commit  you use the git add command to add the appropriate files to the staging area  and git status to preview what is about to be added  remembering to pay attention to the wording used    You can also find general documentation and tutorials for how to use git on the git documentation page which will give more detail about the concept of staging adding files    One other thing worth knowing about is interactive staging - this allows you to add parts of a file to the staging area  so if you ve made three distinct code changes  for related but different functionality   you can use interactive mode to split the changes and add commit each part in turn  Having smaller specific commits like this can be helpful

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Maybe an obvious thing  but     If you have problem with the index  use git-gui  You get a very good view how the index  staging area  actually works   Another source of information that helped me understand the index was Scott Chacons  Getting Git  page 259 and forward   I started off using the command line because most documentation only showed that     I think git-gui and gitk actually make me work faster  and I got rid of bad habits like  git pull  for example    Now I always fetch first    See what the new changes really are before I merge

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if you have more files in my case i have 7000 image files when i try to add them from project s route folder it hasn t added them but when i go to the image folder everything is ok  Go through the target folder and command like abows  git add   git commit -am  image uploading  git push origin master           git push origin master Enumerating objects  6574  done  Counting objects  100   6574 6574   done  Delta compression using up to 4     threads Compressing objects  100   6347 6347   done  Writing objects       28   1850 6569   142 17 MiB   414 00 KiB s

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if you have a subfolder  which was cloned from other git-Repository  first you have to remove the   git  file from the child-Repository  rm -rf  git after that you can change to parent folder and use git add -A

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You should do   git commit   -m  save arezzo files

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You didn t add the changes  Either specifically add them via  git add filename1 filename2   or add all changes  from root path of the project   git add     or use the shorthand -a while commiting   git commit -a -m  message

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I find this problem appearing when I ve done a git add   in a subdirectory below where my  gitignore file lives  the home directory of my repository  so to speak    Try changing directories to your uppermost directory and running git add   followed by git commit -m  my commit message

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