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I have included in a javacript project another GitHub project. The first one is called prototype_threejswithoutReact and the second one is called Doodling.

I tried to commit the overall git repo after modyfing Doodling, and we see it is being saved as a Subproject:

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I have read other threads: Add subproject as usual folder to repository

And I decided to try to delete the child's .git, in Doodling. The result is that the IDE just knows that Doodling is into its parent prototype_ThreejswithoutReact, because we see that the branch in SourceTree and in the IDE match.

However I have tried to change Doodling's files but they do not show up in SourceTree to be committed.

How could we commit Doodling's files?

Thank you.

Yone
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Try from a fresh cloned prototype_threejswithoutReact repo and:

  • either add Doodling as a submodule

    git submodule add /usr/to/Doodling

  • or, if you don't care about the history of Doodling, copy its content in a new folder within the parent repo (and add, and commit)

In both cases, that will be better than trying to fiddle with a nested Git repo (a subfolder with its own .git/ folder in it) which would make the parent repo only records the root folder as a gitlink (special entry in the index, which is what you see)

VonC
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