Re: git commit -a -m is not working

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2015, 17:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20150928171132.GA11993@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150926185416.GA233088@vauxhall.crustytoothpaste.net>

Hi,

brian m. carlson wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 09:51:12PM +0300, Alex Radulescu wrote:

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>> Alex:testGit Alex$ git commit -a -m 'made a change'
>>
>> On branch v1.0
>>
>> Untracked files:
>>
>> new_branch.txt
>>
>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present
>
> git commit -a does not add untracked files.  Such files might be build
> by-products or such and you haven't told Git to track them, so it
> doesn't.

You can run "git add -N <files>" to tell Git to start caring about some new files (e.g., "git add -N ." to track them all).

Alternatively, you can run "git add <files>" to tell Git that the current content of those files is ready for commit (e.g., "git add ." before "git status" and "git commit" to commit everything).

More details are at http://jk.gs/gittutorial.html#_making_changes (also available by running "git help tutorial").

Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan