'.pbxproj' file is missing in commits list

Question

currently building a project clone and push all the changes to my github account step by step. And i always used to see 'Twitter.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj' checked together with modified .swift files. However, i don't see it now. I've reopened and did some additional changes to the code, but still nothing. Is that ok, if it's not pushed? And how do i get it back to normal if it's not?

Answer 1

The list you are looking at is generated by git status. Well, git status does not include any files that didn't change. So you should not expect to see project.pbxproj in the list unless you did something that would change it (like making a new code file and adding it to your project). Merely editing your existing code wouldn't change it, so it doesn't appear.

(In a way, this is a case of the classic confusion as to what git status means. Beginners often think that it's a list of your files, or a list of the files that will go into this commit. It isn't. A commit always contains all your files. But git doesn't bother to list them in the git status, because that could be an unnecessarily huge list. There are ways to find out what's in the commit, but the screen you are displaying is not how to do it.)

TL;DR Don't worry, be happy.