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

Here is another cause of the behavior described in this question (git status untracked files list doesn't include an untracked file in a sub-folder). If the file is untracked because of a .gitignore file in the sub-folder then the file won't be included in the git status untracked files list.