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Development Tools Git Basics Getting Started With Git Committing Changes

Prakhar Patwa
Prakhar Patwa
11,260 Points
Posted by Prakhar Patwa
Prakhar Patwa
11,260 Points

working on windows, dont know why it is untracked file

DELL pc@BaBu MINGW64 ~/my_ecommerce_project (master)

$ git commit -a -m "Added a project functionality information"

On branch master

Initial commit

Untracked files:

    README.txt

nothing added to commit but untracked files present

1 Answer

Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points
Steve Hunter
Steve Hunter
57,712 Points

Unsure why it wasn't added, unless there's something in gitignore about that file.

Have you tried adding everything with either:

git add .

// or 

git add -A

What does git status tell you?

Steve.