Ignore git directory

Question

We're working on erlang and chicagoboss for some projects. ChicagoBoss is a framework. When we create a project1 it becomes like this:

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├── cb_admin
├── ChicagoBoss
├── ebin
├── project1
└── vagrant

And we did git init for project1 only. Later after finishing project1, we created another project2 with git init in it.

├── cb_admin
├── ChicagoBoss
├── ebin
├── project1
├── project2
└── vagrant

Sometimes, When I work in project1 git status shows me following output:

$ git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    ../project2/

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

Even though there is nothing to commit in project2. Why untracked files appear? However to verify I went in my project2 dir and did a git status:

$ git status
On branch develop
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/develop'.
Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

    ./

nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

So to ignore the line for local only, I ran the following command without success:

$ git update-index --assume-unchanged ./
Ignoring path gift_tax/

Can one help me about

• What is ./ appearing there?
• How can I ignore it on local only, changes should not reflect to my remote directory.

Answer 1

../project2/ (from project1 status) and ./ (in project2 status) are consistent with a git init done on root folder (and no on project1 or project2)

Oh Okay, so someone from our team, might have done on root folder

Look for a .git folder. It is probably in /, not in project1 or project2

Do you know, What is ./ appearing there?

Because project2 is not added to the repo which is in /.

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Possible solution (warning: it would lose the current history)

• delete the /.git folder,
• do a git init in project1 and project2,
• in each project, add and commit.