Not Tracked files

[Chris Rusby]

The footer in my SourceTree says that 2 files are not tracked, but there are no untracked files in the file status view. Is there some way to find out which files SourceTree's footer thinks are not tracked?

[KieranA · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

There likely is, however your file status view isn't set up to see them. In the Mac version there's the following filters above the file status view:

By changing these options untracked files may or may not be visible to you. The Windows version has equivalent filters if you're running on Windows, too.

Hope that helps

[Chris Rusby]

Yes that's what I though initially. However, selecting "Show Untracked" shows no files, and if I "Show All" I don't see any files with the not tracked question mark symbol next to them...

[KieranA]

What happens if you run "git status" at the terminal when your present working directory is your Git repository folder?

[Chris Rusby]

I ran "hg status" as it's a mercurial repository. Lots of .DS_Store files, which I guess SourceTree ignores? However, there are two other entries:

? .hgcheck/hg-checkexec-DodzFR

? .hgcheck/hg-checklink-bUIWEG

Could these be related to the 2 untracked files maybe?

Thanks

[Isaac]

I'm in the same case, any hint?

[vipulch]

I too am facing the same issue on Windows version which I verified with the MAC version which works fine. Can you please provide why such behaviour ?

[James Street]

I am also having this problem. no filter setting displays untracked files for me. But i can see the untracked files at the command line and even add them. if I add them they get added to the staging area and can be viewed in sourcetree. it's only the untracked items that I'm unable to get visible within sourcetree (OS X)

[James Street]

figured it out. The IDE had created an extra git folder underneath the top folder and I am guessing the conflict was preventing sourcetree from figuring out what to display

[gsa asas]

I am pretty new to confluence. Some of what you are saying goes over my head for new source code like this. Do you have any screenshots or greater precise instructions?