Am 10/1/2012 12:41, schrieb Howard Miller: > - I have an existing (long standing) project in git with an upstream in github > - I added a subdirectory which I had forgotten was itself a git > project (i.e. it has its own .git directory) > - I committed the subdirectory (git add /path/to/subdir; git commit -m ....) > - I pushed the latest version upstream > > .....at this point I realised that only the directory name had been pushed. SO... > > - git rm /path/to/subdir resulted in fatal: pathspec > '/path/to/subdir/' did not match any files > - so I deleted it manually, re-copied the directory and removed its > ..git directory > > ....I now cannot add or commit the directory. Git just ignores it. I > have grepped and searched and kind find no reference to this directory > anywhere. I am completely stumped. > > Can anybody help? I don't want this to be a git subdirectory, I just > want to be able to add the files (without the .git directory) Perhaps: git rm -f --cached path/to/subdir # remove from index, keep files git add path/to/subdir -- Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html