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Posted by Adam Hinman
Adam Hinman
2,801 Points

When committing all of the changes to the repository, "git commit -a" does not work.

I have tried so many different combinations when committing to the repository. I have tried all the git commit and git add with no luck.

1 Answer

Iain Simmons
MOD
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points
Iain Simmons
Iain Simmons
Treehouse Moderator 32,305 Points

So, there are a few things that need to happen first.

You of course need an initialised Git repository (run git init in the root folder of your project).

Second, git commit -a will only add tracked files (ones that Git already knows about).

Try git add path/to/files or git add . to add everything matching the paths or in the second case, everything from the current directory (should again be the project root folder).

After that, it should say that they are tracked files, and you can commit as you please.