Answer in the bottom.
I am trying to see the status
of my files in the git_test2
directory which contains 3 files named test1.txt
, test2.txt
and test3.txt
.
This is what I typed into Terminal:
cd Desktop
cd git_test2
git status
Everything is good until the git status
command. It should show me just 3 untracked files but instead I get this text from the Terminal:
On branch master
Initial commit
Changes to be committed:
(use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)
new file: ../../AndroidStudioProjects/Sunshine/app/src/main/res/layout/list_item_forecast.xml
new file: ../../Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio1.2/options/fileEditorProviderManager.xml
new file: ../../Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio1.2/options/git.xml
new file: ../../Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio1.2/options/other.xml
new file: ../../Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio1.2/options/runner.layout.xml
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)
modified: ../../AndroidStudioProjects/Sunshine/app/src/main/res/layout/list_item_forecast.xml
modified: ../../Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio1.2/options/runner.layout.xml
Untracked files:
(use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
../../.CFUserTextEncoding
../../.Rsupport/
and after the last line there are many lines just like the last one (in red color)
I just found out the reason:
All I needed to do is git init
, now it shows exactly what I expected. Thank you everyone!
All the existing files are "untracked" until you git add them. You probably don't want that. Git stores all its information in a . git directory, so you can get rid of this repository by deleting ~/.
Untracked files are those that are in the repo's directory but have not yet been added to the repo's index with git add .
A git repository is just a .git/
directory (folder) located in your project's directory. Like this: myproject/.git/
.
If there's no git repository in your current directory, git searches in the parent directory, then in parent's parent and up to top.
As your path was /Users/ishayfrenkel1/Desktop/git_test2
, there should be a git repo somewhere in this path.
new file: ../../Library/Preferences/AndroidStudio1.2/options/git.xml
New files have path at least two levels up from /Library
(which is either /Library
or /Users/ishayfrenkel1/Library
). It means that you have a git repository initiated:
~/
, /Users/<username>/
on OSX or /home/<username>
on Linux./
, the parent of all directories.Most probably you opened the Terminal and typed git init
. Terminal opens in your home directory by default and that's where the new repository was created.
Search for it and delete it. One of the following commands should run without an error. And there it is!
ls /.git
ls ~/.git
Now remove the repository with
rm -rf ~/.git
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