On Branch master git status is showing nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)

Question

I would like to commit but, whenever I am entering git commit -a -m "Initial commit. Added a gitignore file and a README file.

Git status showing as Nothing to commit ((create/copy files and use "git add" to track)

Git init
git add .
git commit -----------------

Where am I lacking? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If in someone's case even after using git add . this problem persists, then this may be useful.

For people like me working on python, if you are creating virtual environment using

virtualenv .

in the same folder, then it will automatically modify .gitignore file and hence it will look like:

# created by virtualenv automatically
*

Which is may be the source of problem in many cases. Removing * may solve problem.

Conclusion: Try checking your .gitignore file

Answer 2

You have to commit a file ! If you try too commit a repository you'll have this error :"nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)" too. If you want to create a empty repository you have to create a file.gitkeep in your repository.