fatal: pathspec '.' did not match any files when trying git rm

Question

I am just running following command on a folder which is part of git repo

The command I am running is: git rm -r --cached . However git is constantly throwing following error:

fatal: pathspec '.' did not match any files

I have no idea why is that. . definitely exists and is definitely part of a git repo. The error does not explain much in detail

Answer 1

Probably you have gotten yourself into a folder with no tracked files. Since git does not track folders, only files, there is no useful sense in which this folder "exists" for git.