在本地将GitHub Repository推送到master分支：不推送文件夹

Question

So I've got a local copy of my github repository and just pushed some local changed to the master branch.

Only individual files were added and not new folders containing files

Any idea why the folders weren't uploaded?

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I only used git clone

git add .

git commit -m "blah"

git push origin master

to make changes to my pre-existing repository I did not make a whole new repository with git init and didn't do anything with "bare" or whatever that command is.

Answer 1

As determined in the comments to the question -

If you have some files, or any parent folder to those files matching a pattern in the project's .gitignore file, without specific exceptions for the files you are trying to add

git add .

Then git will not stage those files , therefore they will not be committed or pushed by subsequent commands.