Git commit -a “untracked files”?

Question

When I do a git commit -a, I am seeing the following:

  # Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
  # with \'#\' will          


        

Answer 1

For others having the same problem, try running

git add . which will add all files of the current directory to track (including untracked) and then use

git commit -a to commit all tracked files.

As suggested by @Pacerier, one liner that does the same thing is

git add -A