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how to add subdirectories in git

Adding subdirectories in existing git repository

You have done git push but the new folders didn’t got pushed. What happened?

Having new folders and subfolders in the git repository, but the files under those not showing in the server?

Adding subdirectories in existing git repositories should have been direct right? But, sometimes it is not. I will show you How to add subdirectory in existing git repository

Let’s say you have existing git repository my-git-repo and you want to add new folder under it: new-folder/another-sub-folder

Step by steps to add git subdirectories in existing git repository

1. Create folder in the repository you are going to create new folders

mkdir -p new-folder/another-sub-folder

2. Now if you do git status you will see the new folder under new listing.

3. Create a file under another-sub-folder otherwise git won’t show nothing.

cd new-folder/another-sub-folder && touch some-file.xml

4. Go to another-sub-folder and issue git init

5. Now go back to the root of the folder and issue git add new-folder/

6. You are done, when you do git status you will see your new files being listed for commit.

You asked to pull from the remote but did not specify the branch github error

asked to pull from remote but did not specify the branch github error

Mostly, you got a new repository or even existing one and you are trying to interact with it.

The above problem would be happening this time.

Git would allow you to have many branches of the same repository. So when you try to interact with the repository and you didn’t specify which branch then this would be the problem.

Because this is not the default configured remote
for your current branch, you must specify a branch on the command line

The tasks you are trying to do might be

git pull
git push or even others.

Solution

The first thing you want to do would be to check what branch you are in.

git branch

If you see master in there * master then do

git pull origin master

This would take care of the problem

Git add not working for folder with .git folder

Also you might get something like
fatal: Pathspec ‘some.file.name.goes.here’ is in submodule ‘some/folder/name’
Also you might notice, if you commit and pushed, only some skeleton of the of the folder structure without the actual files would be committed.

The root of the problem is the folder you are trying to add is tracked under git itself.
This would confuse git and would rather leave it up to you.

the fix
First go ahead and remove the .git folder in the new directory

sudo rm -rf /path/to/new/folder/.git

Then clear the cache from git memory of the new folder

git rm -r --cache /path/to/new/folder

Then when you do the

git status

you will see all the new files being listed and you can commit that.

Updating Git on Mac showing previous version

Was trying to pull something to github and noticed I was using a bit old Git version.
Then I went to and downloaded for mac.
After installing, I checked if I have the latest version by doing

git --version

and it showed

git version 1.7.4.4

Then I suspected the previous one is not updated and checked which git binary is being used

which git

And it replied as

/usr/bin/git

BINGO!
The new one is being save on another directory – /usr/local/git

Then I checked how my path is setup

echo $PATH

it was something like

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin..

As you can see the poor mac would see the /usr/bin first to check if command binary is inside it and it would continue.. so it was not checking the /usr/local/git..

Just putting the proper path infront of the path would solve the problem

export PATH=/usr/local/git/bin/:/usr/local/sbin/:$PATH

That would fix the problem. In the mean time, doing some cleanup on the existing git files would help also..