Git is not detecting a file and is not in .gitignore

Question

I have a file called \"style.css\" and git is not detecting it. It doesn\'t detect it if I delete it either, but it does detect if I change the name of the file. But I need

Answer 1

I had the same problem (components/dashboard/js-dev/training/index.js wasn't being tracked for some reason), so I did the following:

$ git check-ignore -v components/dashboard/js-dev/training/index.js
$ (gave me nothing)

$ git check-ignore -v components/dashboard/js-dev/training/
$ /Users/User/.config/git/ignore:23:    components/dashboard/js-dev/training/

Anyways, I found this to be quite weird, so then I took a look at this file, /Users/User/.config/git/ignore, and this is what it looked like:

(this is line 1)
# Automatically created by GitHub for Mac
# To make edits, delete these initial comments, or else your changes may be lost!

*.DS_Store
.AppleDouble
.LSOverride

# Icon must end with two \r
Icon

# Thumbnails
._*

# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
.DocumentRevisions-V100
.fseventsd
.Spotlight-V100
.TemporaryItems
.Trashes
.VolumeIcon.icns
.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent

# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
.AppleDB
.AppleDesktop
Network Trash Folder
Temporary Items
.apdisk

And it turns out that line 23 is in fact the one between .com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent and # Directories potentially created on remote AFP share, in other words, it was a completely empty line!

I tried removing all the extra newlines so my file looked like this:

# Automatically created by GitHub for Mac
# To make edits, delete these initial comments, or else your changes may be lost!
*.DS_Store
.AppleDouble
.LSOverride
# Icon must end with two \r
Icon
# Thumbnails
._*
# Files that might appear in the root of a volume
.DocumentRevisions-V100
.fseventsd
.Spotlight-V100
.TemporaryItems
.Trashes
.VolumeIcon.icns
.com.apple.timemachine.donotpresent
# Directories potentially created on remote AFP share
.AppleDB
.AppleDesktop
Network Trash Folder
Temporary Items
.apdisk

I run git status, and I notice that it's now picking up components/dashboard/js-dev/training/. I run git add components/dashboard/js-dev/training/, and all works fine again.

Hope this helps someone - this issue got me stuck for an unnecessarily long amount of time.