github changes not staged for commit

Question

I have a very basic github setup with a readme, a directory, and another directory inside it with an html file. On github I can only view the readme and the first folder but

Answer 1

In my case the problem was the subfolder that I was tying to push was a git folder itself

So I did the following

1. Go inside the subfolder that you want to push and run this:

rm -rf .git

2. Then run this:

 git rm --cached 

3. Then come to main project folder and run this (make sure to add / after folder name)

    git add /
    git commit -m "Commit message"
    git push -f origin