I am trying to add a folder to a github repository. The file appears empty on github and has a green arrow on it. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I would appreciate your help. Thanks.
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Is the folder/directory empty? Git cannot store empty directories. So in that case it would be a limitation of Git itself, not a GitHub problem. – ulmangt Mar 24 '12 at 04:46
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I think the problem is that the folder is being added as a submodule but i'm not sure how to fix that – tamara makarem Mar 24 '12 at 06:50
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ok problem fixed! I think the problem was that the folder seemed to belong to 2 repositories. I created a new folder and recopied the code from the old folder then added it on the repository. That fixed the problem. – tamara makarem Mar 24 '12 at 20:39
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This seems similar to the "Git - how to track untracked content?", where a folder got added as a "gitlink":
Effectively you are using the internal feature that git submodule uses (gitlink entries) but you are not using the submodule feature itself.
That is what is represented by a green arrow in GitHub: a submodule, as shown in the GitHub submodule help page:
What you did is essentially adding the submodule content in your Git repo.
You may want to check "How do I remove a git submodule?" or "un-submodule a git submodule" in order to be sure you got rid of any submodule reference.
