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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..