Thanks Jeff, the confirmation of git rm -r --cached dir was exactly
what i needed!
On Jul 31, 7:57 am, Jeffrey wrote:
> All of the inner workings aside, you can see what I meant by a simple
> test: try to add an empty folder to a git repo. There will be no
> changes to commit. This is what I m
All of the inner workings aside, you can see what I meant by a simple
test: try to add an empty folder to a git repo. There will be no
changes to commit. This is what I mean by not tracking directories -
there is no way to tell it to track a directory which does not
actually contain any content.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Jeffrey wrote:
> Git doesn't really track folders - it just tracks files.
If I understand it correctly, git DOES track folders/directories. In
most operating systems, directories are really just special files
containing pointers to and meta-information about othe
Git doesn't really track folders - it just tracks files. You'll see a
folder listed as untracked in the output of git status, but that's
just a simplification so you don't see the whole list of untracked
files inside it. Presumably you have one or more tracked files inside
the folder. You're ri
