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Copy/Pasting a directory onto my repository!

Oscar Martinez Carmona

Hi!

I'm a newbie to git and SourceTree. I've created a repository and following the steps created a textfile and allready committed and pushed it into the repository. Fine. Now I'm trying to copy/paste a folder containning other folders with the classes i'm trying to write, but... still haven't managed how to do it so! I try direct copy/paste into the working tree but it doesn't seem to work!

Can you guys walk me thought this, please!

Thanx so much in advance!

Accepted answers

Seth

Do those folders have any contents yet (besides other folders)? Git only tracks files, not folders. As far as Git is concerned an empty folder may as well not exist.

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Seth

Do those folders have any contents yet (besides other folders)? Git only tracks files, not folders. As far as Git is concerned an empty folder may as well not exist.

Oscar Martinez Carmona

Well, actually those folders contain other code files. I want to upload (sorry for that profane expression here) a folder called, in this case, "libraries" with a few folders inside it that contain code files, the classes headers and its implementations (.cpp and .h). But there's none empty folders here. Is that feasible with a copy/paste?

Thanx!

Seth

Yeah, that all sounds fine. If you paste files (or folders that contain files) into your working copy, they should show up in SourceTree as untracked files (untracked have a ? icon). From there, they can be added and committed to the repository, then pushed to remotes.

One possible issue - are you pasting folders inside your repository or beside it? In other words, the folder that you are pasting into should have a (possibly hidden) .git folder.

Oscar Martinez Carmona

Maybe that could be one of the reasons if this screenshot I'm posting makes any sense to you, cause that's the only answer I get whenever I try pasting a folder or a single file!