I cloned a repository from github, and I would like to make it a directory in an other github repository. Though it is considered as a submodule (and I don't want it to be a submodule, but a directory). In this directory i have some script that I would like to push on my github repository.
When i do : git status i get this error message:
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
(commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)
modified: my_directory (untracked content)
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
I tried to do git add . ; git add my_directory and to commit it, but it's not working neither.
I don't find any .gitignore or .gitmodules...
edit :
finally i find how to do what i want, i had to delete the .git that was in my directory. Though it was an invisible file...
Once this was done, i just had to do git commit -a and then git push
If that directory has a .git/ subfolder in it, it will act as a nested git repository.
If you add that folder, you actually are adding only the tree SHA1 (gitlink) to your repo, not the folder content.
To undo that:
git rm --cached my_directory
(very important: no trailing slash: you want to delete the entry, not the folder content)
If you don't care about the history of the content, delete my_directory/.git
Then you can add, commit and push as usual: that folder will be a regular folder.