Not able to add a subfolder to remote repository in Github

Question

In my computer I have a folder nextdoor , and there is subfolder inside it source . All my images and code are present inside the source folder, but somehow I am not able to push this particular subfolder to remote repository.

Remote Repository : LINK

If you go to remote repo, you can see the source folder is not added. The subfolder is also not empty. I have tried bunch of methods but unfortunately, I am not able to push this particular subfolder up.

If I do git status

git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.

nothing to commit, working directory clean

Total subfolders:

bin  include  lib  local  pip-selfcheck.json  README.md  source  static_cdn

Since I am able to push all folders but why source is not going up?

Inside source folder:

crytography  manage.py  registration.txt  templates
db.sqlite3   nextdoor   static

.gitignore file:

# global gitignore for IDE, etc
# -- should still exclude project specific ignores in .gitignore

# system junk
.netrwhist
.Trash-1000
*.pyc
npm-debug.log

# IDEs
.idea
.env

# private files
id_rsa
*.key

Could anyone help me please?

Answer 1

Your last commit(815bb7d) is broken. It adds "half a submodule".

When adding a submodule using git submodule add two things happen: a file .gitmodules is created, containing the URL of your submodule and a "folder" is created, annotated with the commit of your submodule.

In your case you managed to create a commit containing the second, but not the first:

$ git ls-tree 815bb7d28719ab66e765ba8e265eb317766b68db
100644 blob 506c8957ac440449d375416f45c6753a3cb65d83    .gitignore
100644 blob 5f8188352aa817edb6808536f598d3ac74d448d7    README.md
040000 tree c336cc94ab9a686360ee9e6f330558cdee571e9d    bin
040000 tree 334b6ff5f7c516042b7a185ec6106208df8495a7    include
040000 tree e65f051d2d0e9f2648a6b83f0ef0836893423ee5    lib
040000 tree 63a79abf5f366fc25b0b47fc527ea237163a0505    local
100644 blob 2dbf660a900d007e70510ff0ccc2c553b32d6120    pip-selfcheck.json
160000 commit 4732e130e321cacd355f8bffbf1c1726e94576c6  source
040000 tree 12edc4bcf6f3ab7a76dc5bda57a940c0caeae7e0    static_cdn

You see, the commit object is stored but the corresponding .gitmodules file is not.

You have at least two options either throw away the broken commit ( git reset --hard 815bb7d28719ab66e765ba8e265eb317766b68db^ ) or throw away you whole history altogether by deleting the .git directory as suggested in comments.

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Be aware that it is not possible to push directories ever. You always do local commits in your local repository and then sync your local repository with a remote repository by pushing your local commit.

In your case you were not able to add the files in "source" to your repository, because "source" was considered as a separate repository, a submodule.

Answer 2

This is the fastest, but surely not the best solution. Something seems to be broken in your git repository. The fastest way I got this to work was to destroy your git repository and start again. warning you will lose your history:

rm -rf .git
git init
git add ...

I would be better to investiage why the git repository is broken; as suggested by @michas