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I'm trying to put together a pull request for an existing git repos. I've forked the project and cloned it to my system. When I add a directory to the existing project and then try to "git add --all *" or pretty much anything else to add this new directory full of files.

Every time I do this, it tries to add it as a subproject. I don't want that! I want this directory to be just a normal part of the original git project so that I can then provide a pull request and the owner can see all of the guts of this new directory as if it were a full member of the project.

I've googled about this, but everything I found seemed to suggest you have to actually work at it to make it turn into a submodule/subproject. For me it is happening automatically (and frustratingly).

Blue Ice
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Have you tried repo, which helps you to manage multi git repos.

Tim Green
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It sounds like the subdirectory is already a git repo. If you just want to add the files to the parent repo, you can delete the .git directory from the subdirectory before adding it.

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  • Thanks all, I got it solved. It turns out it WAS kind of the "left over .git directory inside directory", but not exactly. I had actually thought of that somewhere along the way and removed it...but git is like an elephant. It never forgets! I ultimately had to change the name of the directory and make sure there was no .git dir inside of it...and then it finally worked right after that. I was able to "git add --all foo-dir" and add all of its contents into the main git repo. thanks for all the help! – user3314178 Feb 26 '14 at 04:47