Git nothing added to commit but untracked files present

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I m new to Git and is using for the very first time  I would appreciate if someone could help me out  I tried finding the answer at forums but there are tons of commands that are coming out and not sure which one to use   On the prod server  if I do the git pull  it is giving me the following error      Untracked files       use  git add      to include in what will be committed    Optimization language languageUpdate php email test php nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  git add  to track  Please move or remove them before you can merge    I m not too sure how to make it work  If I remove them  from where would it be removed  Appreciate your reply

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You have two options here   You can either add the untracked files to your Git repository  as the warning message suggested   or you can add the files to your  gitignore file  if you want Git to ignore them   To add the files use git add   git add Optimization language languageUpdate php git add email test php   To ignore the files  add the following lines to your  gitignore    Optimization language languageUpdate php  email test php   Either option should allow the git pull to succeed afterwards

User · Answer

In case someone cares just about the error nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  quot git add quot  to track  and not about Please move or remove them before you can merge   You might have a look at the answers on Git - Won  39 t add files  There you find at least 2 good candidates for the issue in question here  that you either are in a subfolder or in a parent folder  but not in the actual repo folder  If you are in the directory one level too high  this will definitely raise that message  quot nothing added to commit    quot   see my answer in the link for details  I do not know if the same message occurs when you are in a subfolder  but it is likely  That could fit to your explanations

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Please Follow this process   First of all install git bash and create a repository on git  1  Go to working directory where the file exist which you want to push on remote and create  git folder by     git init   2  Add the files in your new local repository     git add     Note  while you are in same folder make sure you have placed dot after command if you putting path or not putting dot that will create ambiguity   3  Commit the files that you ve staged in your local repository     git commit -m  First commit      4  after this go to git repository and copy remote URL    git remote add origin  remote repository URL   5     git remote -v   Note  this will ask for user email and user name just put it as per config   6     git push origin master   this will push whole committed code to FILE git on repository  And I think we done

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Also instead of adding each file manually  we could do something like   git add --all   OR  git add -A   This will also remove any files not present or deleted  Tracked files in the current working directory which are now absent    If you only want to add files which are tracked and have changed  you would want to do  git add -u   What is the difference between git add    amp  git add --all

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If you have already tried using the git add   command to add all your untracked files  make sure you re not under a subfolder of your root project   git add   will stage all your files under the current subfolder

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Follow all the steps   Step 1  initialize git    git init   Step 2   Check files are exist or not    git ls   Step 3    Add the file    git add filename   Step 4  Add comment to show    git commit -m  your comment    Step 5   Link to your repository   git remote add origin   copy repository link  and paste here    Step 6  Push on Git    git push -u origin master

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