I created a repo directly on GitHub using by browser, than using git bash cloned the repo to my machine, I was able to do a test commit with bash using the readme file.
I keep getting fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree when running git --work-tree=yourSrcFolder add .
Was looking here and here for some clue but after 4 hours ready to give up on ever using Git.
My solution was to create a hard link to the file that is placed in another directory.
You can use ln command (mklink on Windows) to achieve this (assuming that you are currently in the repository directory):
# this will add a file with the same name to the current directory and the same inode
ln ../../filename .
And then just add it to the git index:
git add filename
And commit it if you need:
git commit -m "add file from another directory"
Simply move any file you wish to add into the repo directory, then add them to the git tracking.
Example: suppose you want to add a file named test.txt to your git repo.
git add test.txtgit commit -m "Added test file to the repo"git push
.git folder. If you need to add a repo just copy the repo into the repo directory and run git add . or git add -A. This will add the repo and its entire content to the git tracking.(Windows version) just add a mklink /j or /J for Directory Junction
at your git dir:
mklink /j DirName "C:\location\SourceDir\"
--work-tree? If you're not in the repo, you probably need to be adding--git-dirtoo... but this is an unusual way to use git.git addinstead.--work-treelooks like a backwards way of doing things.