Try removing the directory with rmdir newDirectory (without git). If that
fails, newDirectory is obviously not empty. In that case you should check
the contents of the dir with ls -la newDirectory, and/or remove it with
rm -rf newDirectory.
Cheers,
Gergely
On 26 March 2014 02:00, Michael Laird
If you can't find a solution maybe you can try in [1], the problem seems to
be specific to Windows and also you need to learn basics commands to play
around in a terminal, think that when you are in git shell you are in a
emulated *nix terminal
[1] =
Gergely,
Thanks. I actually have 2 directories from failed attempts last week. One
of them was empty and rmdir newProject2 worked - hurray - to remove that
empty directory.
The other directory, newProject1, has 2 sub-directories that ls says have
files in them. Git thinks they are not empty,
One of the 2 git imaginary things (git tells me they are not directories,
nor are they repositories) under the newProject1 directory was simple. It
had something looking like a config file, which I removed with rm config,
and it had imaginary directory headers which I removed with rmdir
OK, turns out Gergely's suggestion to use rm -rf subDirectory works, and
removes the directory and all its files. The GitBash pointer has to be on
the directory that contains the subDirectory. I was earlier trying it while
pointing to the subDirectory, and it fails there. After removing all the
In Nelson's first response, he suggested doing some ls commands, and I just
remembered that.
When pointing to the htdocs directory, and I do ls -la
I get - several responses listing directories and files, plus I get 2
things refering to my first attempts last week. They seem to be
directories
I don't have the problem solved, but here is more information, and maybe a
more targeted question.
I tried to remove the thing Git calls newProject with the command rm -f
newProject
I get rm: 'newProject' is a directory
I read that directories can be removed with this command git rm -r
