Git error fatal: unable to stat '*': No such file or directory

Question

I ran into this error, and found very little documentation on how to fix it online. I got the error by trying to run the command git add ., and received this re

Answer 1

To solve the problem, I removed the file from git, then re-added it by doing the following:

git rm "myPathToAFile"

git add .

git commit -am 'my commit'

Hope this helps someone else!