GitLab - Strange Icon and Entry after corrupt commit

Question

I tried to find a description for the following gitlab entry in my repo (in files-view):

Answer 1

In my case this turned out to be caused by a colleague that had mistakenly cloned one Git repository within the top level of another (because of the admittedly confusing top level that consisted of only a -redundant- directory with the same name as the repository).

The resulting directory layout was like this:

.git
art
  .git
  …
documentatie
  …

For some reason the ‘art’ directory’s contents were never pushed (because of this specific layout?), so after locally cloning the ‘documentatie’ repository, one would end up with an empty ‘art’ sub-directory.