I am starting a new project and would like to have version control from the start. I experimented over the weekend with a new yii2 project created on my live server and pushed to a repository. I initialized git and attempted to add files for the first commit and got this message:
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
vendor
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added
Am I missing something about the add command? I assumed that add * would be everything except what is in .gitignore. I did the dreaded “got it working” thing by doing the -f, but I really didn’t want to add the vendor folder. Why can’t git ignore what is in gitignore and add the rest?
I am searching all over for answers. The only thing I can find is to have /vendor in the .gitignore which it already is. No one has ever had this problem?
Git says that it hasn’t got anything to add, so unless you really want to use ‘f’, don’t.
If I am doing an init on an already existing project, I always add the gitignore(s) first. But I suspect that Git is intelligent enough to handle it all in one go.
