untracked files not shown in git status

Question

I have a project with the following folder structure:

All the project files are in base_fldr folder. Also I have a few folders inside base_fldr called sub_fldr1 and

Answer 1

In order to debug an issue like this, see if your .gitignore file is the culprit by observing the following two outputs

See https://git-scm.com/docs/git-ls-files

1. git ls-files --other --directory --exclude-standard

This will show all untracked files, while obeying the .gitignore file.

2. git ls-files --other --directory

This will show all untracked files, without obeying the .gitignore file.

Whichever files are present in output of 2, but are not present in output of 1, are not shown in untracked because of some flag in your .gitignore file