Why does Git ignore these folders?

Question

I added a Laravel App under Git so that I could push to Bitbucket. On root folder, I ran git add -A and pushed on remote server. I checked that it did not send all folders; for instance, it did not add vendor folder at all. How do I make sure that all subfolders are added? When I run git status, it says:

# On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean

Update

I ran git status --ignore and found the following files listed:

stocktrack/app/storage/logs/laravel.log
stocktrack/app/storage/meta/services.json
stocktrack/app/storage/sessions/cdf664ccf42d040bc92d76418f736cc78e20d77a
stocktrack/app/storage/views/81774cd762e1fa0174ad42e0b0d53196
stocktrack/bootstrap/compiled.php
stocktrack/composer.lock
stocktrack/vendor/

In .gitignore, I only added .idea. Why did it ignore the others?

Note: `GIT_TRACE_EXCLUDE=1 git status` will soon (git 2.8, March 2016) be an additional way to debug `.gitignore` rules. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/18953923/6309 — VonC, Mar 01 '16 at 16:12

Sascha Wolf · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-19T09:07:36.547

You can use git check-ignore to determine if a path is getting ignored by git.

Furthermore check-ignore offers a -v (--verbose) option which will tell you about the pattern that ignores your file and where you can find it.

Let's assume you have a repository with the following directory structure.

bar/test/important
foo/a.tmp
foo/b

And this .gitignore file.

bar/
foo/*.tmp

You wonder why your important file in bar/test/ is getting ignored.

This is a pretty bland example, but it just serves to show the concept.

Now let's check which pattern ignores your important file.

$ git check-ignore --verbose bar/test/important
.gitignore:1:bar/       bar/test/important

As you can see, check-ignore tells you that the pattern bar/ in your .gitignore file on line 1 ignores the path in question.

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 19 '15 at 05:34

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git add --force <Specific Folder> did the trick with me.

answered Feb 19 '15 at 05:34

Volatil3

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That's merely a treatment of the symptoms. It makes more sense to solve the problem at it's root. Take a look at [my answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/28600789/2274224). – Sascha Wolf Feb 19 '15 at 09:14
This isn't a permanent solution. Problem will re-occur on the next branch. – IgorGanapolsky Jun 08 '21 at 19:18

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 08 '21 at 19:32

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The issue I had, and most likely you had is that .git/info/exclude had these folders listed in it. I had to remove them from there. Then I ran:

git rm -r -f --cached .
git add .

answered Jun 08 '21 at 19:32

IgorGanapolsky

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score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 19 '15 at 05:20

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It seems .gitignore works.

Check your repository's root directory. You will find a file .gitignore which includes file names to be ignored.

answered Feb 19 '15 at 05:20

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Updated Question. gitIgnore does not have required pattern – Volatil3 Feb 19 '15 at 05:21
You might have global gitignore http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7335420/global-git-ignore – shirakia Feb 19 '15 at 05:27

Why does Git ignore these folders?

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