Why does 'git commit' not save my changes?

Question

I did a git commit -m \"message\" like this:

> git commit -m \"save arezzo files\"
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
#   (u         


        

Answer 1

The reason why this is happening is because you have a folder that is already being tracked by Git inside another folder that is also tracked by Git. For example, I had a project and I added a subfolder to it. Both of them were being tracked by Git before I put one inside the other. In order to stop tracking the one inside, find it and remove the Git file with:

rm -rf .git

In my case I had a WordPress application and the folder I added inside was a theme. So I had to go to the theme root, and remove the Git file, so that the whole project would now be tracked by the parent, the WordPress application.