I found myself in a similar situation as the poster:
If I call "git add .", and then "git status" and it keeps saying "working directory clean" and has nothing to commit.
But I had a different solution than what's here. Since I came to this first, I hope to save others some time.
From the above answers and what I've seen elsewhere, the usual fixes to this problem are:
- Ensure there are actually saved changes on the file in question
- Ensure the file doesn't meet your exclude rules in
.gitignoreand.git/info/exclude - You're not trying to add an empty folder. Git won't track those. Standard solution is to place a blank file named
.gitignoreas a placeholder so git will track the folder.
In my case, I had originally tried to create a git repo around an existing repo (not knowing it was there). I had removed the
.git folder from this sub repo a while ago, but I didn't realize that it was too late, and git was already tracking it as a submodule. You can read more about how these behave and how to remove them here, but- the solution for me was to simply run
git rm --cached path_to_submodule.
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