如何将文件夹从public_html添加到GitHub存储库？

Question

I made a GitHub repository for my PHP project. All files are located in /home/nikola/public_html/todo/. However, I don't know how to add it. First time I made it by typing this:

git add ~/public_html/todo

This time, it just doesn't work. When I try to do: git add ~/public_html/todo and type git status it says that one file is not yet commited (todo) but that's directory with files and directories in it! I can't find solution. I have cloned repository normal in /home/nikola/todo and tried to do this.

Answer 1

You seem to have something wrong with your github repository layout. The files that you want to add to your repository must be within the repository source tree.

The way I understand it, your git repo is in ~/todo and you want to add files from ~/public_html/todo, but this is not how git works. Copy your files into ~/todo (cp -r ~/public_html/todo/* ~/todo/) and try again.