GitHub folder has a white arrow on it and can't open

Question

I want to have a server and client projects in the same repository.
After finishing backend I cloned a boilerplate(client) for the frontend from another repository. It is in the same level as src.
After pushing it to github I can see a white arrow in client folder, and can't open. Following the steps in this link I removed .git from client folder. But when I do

git add client

or

git add . 
git commit -m "commit"

it says that

husky > pre-commit (node v10.16.0)
i No staged files found.
On branch features
nothing to commit, working tree clean

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should first do:

git rm --cached client      # no trailing slash
git commit -m "remove client gitlink"

Than you can try and add client/ again, which, since it has no .git subfolder, should include its files content.

Note that, as illustrate in okonet/lint-staged issue 682 and its README

If you wish to use lint-staged in a multi package monorepo, it is recommended to install husky in the root package.json.

Check also your husky configuration, as in here.

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I've ".gitignore" file in client folder. Can it affect on this issue?

If nothing is added, you can check if that is because of any ignore rule with:

git check-ignore -v -- client/aFile_that_should_be_added