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 encountered another cause for this. Probably very rare circumstances.

I copied my entire repository to another folder to work on it. Changes I made to a submodule just weren't being detected by git. Turned out that the .git file in the submodule folder contained an absolute file reference to the original copy. As soon as I corrected the file reference to point to my working copy all was well.