Lesson 7: Git Error - 'main/' does not have a comit checked out

[SebasAran16]

Hello!

I have been trying to follow the course for uploading my code to github, but when trying to stage and commit files with git add . , I get two errors:

git add .
error: 'main/' does not have a commit checked out
fatal: adding files failed

Also, in the status, all the files that should be in untracked does not show up there:

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        .solhint.json
        .solhintignore
        main/

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

I thing that may be by the fatal error of the fail in adding files. I had not used git before, so I would really aprecciate some help here, it is really confising at the beggining.

I think it is important to tell that copied all the code from the repo, and ever since everytime I made a change I got the M of modified aside the code name, I do not now if that is related to that...

Also, in the Source Control i have 20 pending changes...

Thank you very much!

[TradMod]

Check this: (same issue's solution)
https://github.community/t/git-add-error-error-main-does-not-have-a-commit-checked-out/156072/4

[SebasAran16]

Those are the images of the issues, I already tried by doing the stagging manually from the Source Control and doing the other steps in the terminal but /main remains in the untracked, and when trying to add it to the commit: thows me the same errors. And if I continue through untill I get to the push to gitHub (after creating the remote successfuly) I got the error: error: src refspec master does not match any. error: failed to push some refs

Thank you very much!

[TradMod]

Bro whats in the main/ folder? I think that should not be there. Check this Patrick's Code Repo, it does not include any main folder, not even .env file. see: https://github.com/PatrickAlphaC/hardhat-fund-me-fcc

And I checked into my repo as well there is no main/ in there as well.
Where did you get that folder? What's in that folder? maybe you have mistakenly copy pasted that folder from any other file.

For this err error: src refspec master does not match any. error: failed to push some refs check this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181861/message-src-refspec-master-does-not-match-any-when-pushing-commits-in-git

[TradMod]

Notice one thing. All these files are green or dim grey but the main/ is white.
I think, you mistakenly copy pasted main/ to this folder after initializing the git init......

[TradMod]

Check whats in there, in main/. If there is nothing related to code of this project then delete it and run git add .

[SebasAran16]

Bro whats in the main/ folder? I think that should not be there. Check this Patrick's Code Repo, it does not include any main folder, not even .env file. see: https://github.com/PatrickAlphaC/hardhat-fund-me-fcc

And I checked into my repo as well there is no main/ in there as well. Where did you get that folder? What's in that folder? maybe you have mistakenly copy pasted that folder from any other file.

For this err error: src refspec master does not match any. error: failed to push some refs check this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181861/message-src-refspec-master-does-not-match-any-when-pushing-commits-in-git

Yeah, that main folder is the problem, but I get it when I code git init main . I have errased that folder several times, as it only contains the .git , but everytime I follow the course steps and do git init main it creates again and I get the error again, I do not know much about git, but as you do not have it I am starting to think that I should not have the .git in my hardhat-fund-me-fcc folder, as I have one .git in the main folder and another .git on main.

Thank you so much bro.

[alymurtazamemon]

@SebasAran16 Follow these commands and where you face an issue, paste the error codes here. I will check that.

You should be at the root level of the project folder.

1. git init
2. git add .
3. git commit -m "initial commit"
4. git remote add origin url-of-your-github-repo-here
5. git branch -M main
6. git push -u origin main

[clementkasun]

cant use command git add . it occurs this error?

[SebasAran16]

@ali-thegilfoyle Omg really, thank you a lot! The other message was pre-trying to do the steps you told me. I think I was getting an error because of my git was already initialized and I just kept initializing it again and again after errasing ./main just because it is the way is done in the course. The weird thing for my is why git init main was creating a folder in the main folder of the project (because there was already a .git on the hardhat folder?).

Anyways, it was yesterday so stressful for me and today you really helped me man!

Thats my repo, the commit message express what this was for me haha.

[SebasAran16]

Oh that is the -b for, git init -b main, that the code on the course, I was just doing git init main because of the code with the -b throwed me an error, and people in discussions just told to do it so... May the error be produced because of git was already initialized? Thanks again :)