How to fix "modified content, untracked content" in git?

Question

The objective is to commit a git branch. The output of "git status" for the branch is:

On branch zeromq_new Your branch is up to date with 'origin/zeromq'.  Changes not staged for commit:   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)   (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)        modified:   log4cplus (modified content, untracked content)       modified:   ../lib/notification/cppzmq (modified content) 

The directory structure looks like this:

HySecureGateway ├──fes │   └──log4cplus │       ├──.git │       ├──.gitattributes │       ├──.gitignore │       ├──.gitmodules │       ├──catch │       │   ├──.git │       │   ├──.gitattributes │       │   ├──.github │       │   ├──.gitignore │       │   └──.github │       │       ├──issue_template.md │       │       └──pull_request_template.md │       └──threadpool │           └──.github └──lib     └──notification         └──cppzmq             ├──.git             └──.gitignore 

I read an answer of to a similar question here:

How to track untracked content? ,

and couldn't understand it completely. Also the logc4plus/.gitmodules contains this:

[submodule "threadpool"]          path = threadpool         url = https://github.com/log4cplus/ThreadPool.git  [submodule "catch"]          path = catch         url = https://github.com/philsquared/Catch.git 

Answer 1

What I did was to run:

git rm -rf --cached myuntrackedfolder 

This tells git to forget about it (since it was being tracked formally).

Then I used:

git add myuntrackedfolder  

to add it and I was good to go.