Untracked files when git status executed on a new folder

Untracked files when git status executed on a new folder

[Víctor Martín Hernández]

Hi all.
Today I've had an unexpected behaviour that I'm not sure if is a bug or
I'm not doing git best practices... (surely the latest...)
The sequence of actions is :

1. create a new subfolder of my local repository branch
2. cd to this new folder, and create a new file
3. execute git status from the new folder

Doing that, the new folder doesn't appear as untracked.

4. cd ..
5. git status
In this case, the new folder appears.

If I create a new folder on the same level that the new one created in
step 1, cd into it, and execute git status, the folder created in step 1
appears as untracked.

After step 3 I have executed git commit and git push to the remote, and
later another user has realized that the new file was not present.

Please let me know if you understand my explanation, and if it's a bug
or just that I'm not as experienced as I'd like with git ;)

THANKS!!
Víctor

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Víctor Martín Hernández

R&D Software Engineer
Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE/CSIC), and 
Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)

Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n
08193  Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) - Barcelona
Tel. : +34 93 586 8782
Web:   http://gwart.ice.cat/

Re: Untracked files when git status executed on a new folder

[Johannes Löthberg]

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On 23/06, Víctor Martín Hernández wrote:
>Hi all.
>Today I've had an unexpected behaviour that I'm not sure if is a bug or
>I'm not doing git best practices... (surely the latest...)
>The sequence of actions is :
>
>1. create a new subfolder of my local repository branch
>2. cd to this new folder, and create a new file
>3. execute git status from the new folder
>
>Doing that, the new folder doesn't appear as untracked.
>
>4. cd ..
>5. git status
>In this case, the new folder appears.
>
>If I create a new folder on the same level that the new one created in
>step 1, cd into it, and execute git status, the folder created in step 1
>appears as untracked.
>

Can't reproduce on Git 2.4.4/Linux, which Git version and platform are 
you using?

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Re: Untracked files when git status executed on a new folder

[Víctor Martín Hernández]

Hi all,
sorry for not having sent these informations in my first e-mail.
I'm working on a Debian Jessie laptop, with git version 2.1.4. 
I watched the same behavior in a workmate's laptop which uses last
version of Ubuntu, but now I cannot contact him to get git version.

Afger "apt-get update" and "apg-get install --only-upgrade git", the
response is that I have the latest git version, what sounds strange to
me if you say you use version 2.4.4.


Thanks!!

Víctor


 

On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 18:54 +0200, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> On 23/06, Víctor Martín Hernández wrote:
> >Hi all.
> >Today I've had an unexpected behaviour that I'm not sure if is a bug or
> >I'm not doing git best practices... (surely the latest...)
> >The sequence of actions is :
> >
> >1. create a new subfolder of my local repository branch
> >2. cd to this new folder, and create a new file
> >3. execute git status from the new folder
> >
> >Doing that, the new folder doesn't appear as untracked.
> >
> >4. cd ..
> >5. git status
> >In this case, the new folder appears.
> >
> >If I create a new folder on the same level that the new one created in
> >step 1, cd into it, and execute git status, the folder created in step 1
> >appears as untracked.
> >
> 
> Can't reproduce on Git 2.4.4/Linux, which Git version and platform are 
> you using?
> 

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Víctor Martín Hernández

R&D Software Engineer
Instituto de Ciencias del Espacio (ICE/CSIC), and 
Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)

Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, s/n
08193  Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) - Barcelona
Tel. : +34 93 586 8782
Web:   http://gwart.ice.cat/