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Can't seem to commit

Subject: Can't seem to commit

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3 messages between Dec 4, 2010 and Dec 6, 2010.

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weloki· Dec 4, 2010, 16:33 UTC · lore

There is probably an easy solution to this but I'm seeing something really weird... I can't seem to commit anything to my new branch. When I try to commit it just says "no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")" When I try to do git add it doesn't seem to do anything. When I try to push it says "Everything up-to-date", but when I look at the branch on github my files aren't there. Strangely I was able to do everything fine with a different branch I created afterwards.

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Andreas Schwab· Dec 4, 2010, 16:57 UTC · re: weloki · lore

Re: Can't seem to commit

weloki <weloki@gmail.com> writes:

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> There is probably an easy solution to this but I'm seeing something really
> weird...
> I can't seem to commit anything to my new branch. When I try to commit it
> just says "no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit
> -a")"
> When I try to do git add it doesn't seem to do anything.

If you are unsure what to do you should always try "git status" first.

Andreas.

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Chris Packham· Dec 6, 2010, 08:54 UTC · lore

Re: Can't seem to commit

Sorry for the dupe, I forgot to CC the list.

On 05/12/10 05:33, weloki wrote:

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>
> There is probably an easy solution to this but I'm seeing something really
> weird...
> I can't seem to commit anything to my new branch. When I try to commit it
> just says "no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit
> -a")"
> When I try to do git add it doesn't seem to do anything.
> When I try to push it says "Everything up-to-date", but when I look at the
> branch on github my files aren't there.
> Strangely I was able to do everything fine with a different branch I created
> afterwards.

One thing to check is where you're pushing to ("git remote show origin" should tell you). You may also want to check the value of "git config branch.master.merge", "git config remote.origin.url" and "git config push.default".

For me these are refs/heads/master <my github project> tracking

Also on a very fresh repository you need to use "git push origin master:refs/heads/master" to create the master branch on the remote end.