Nothing to commit, working tree clean

[joanna89polska]

Hello!

I’m just starting using Git and GitHub so please be patient with me as I really want to learn :slight_smile:

So the problem is: my local and remote depository has been already linked. My first commit is also visble here, on GitHub but I can’t push any new commits. This is what I get:

$ git commit -m “version 1”
On branch master
Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/master’.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

I tried to look for the answer online but it doesn’t seem to help me.

[steveward]

@joanna89polska if you need to push your commits up to GitHub you can use the following command:

git push origin master

In this command origin refers to the URL of the repository on GitHub, and master is the current branch of your repository that you are wanting to push to.

I’d also recommend checking out GitHub Desktop – it’s a GUI application that we specifically built to help make it easier to use Git and GitHub. You can download it at http://desktop.github.com. Let me know if you have any other questions!

[gauravconnectme]

hello steveward 

im facing the same issue before  ‘git push origin master’

 i’m getting 

‘On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean’

on ‘git commit -m “add”’

Please let me know where i’m lagging!

Thankyou!

[sheelkumar558]

same issue

[satheesh2705]

thank you very much bro i have same issue, i gonna many site and seen the blog but its did the problem just two minutes

[gargashwani]

Make new repo and push the existing code again to the new repo

git init doesn’t initialize if you already have a .git/ folder in your repository. So, for your case, do -

(1) rm -rf .git/

(2) git init

(3) git remote add origin https://repository.remote.url

(4) git commit -m “Commit message”

(5) git push -f origin master

Note that all git configs like remote repositories for this repository are cleared in step 1. So, you have to setup all remote repository URLs again.

Also, take care of the -f in step 5 : The remote already has some code base with n commits, and you’re trying to make all those changes into a single commit. So, force-pushing the changes to remote is necessary.

[moshahin01]

👍

[RaxCode0101]

i forgot add "git add ."

[ndi92]

This error message appears error: failed to push some refs to 'master' after entering git push -f origin master

[itsdavidmea]

Does that mean every time I want to add a new element I have to create a new repository ?

[Gilang-Nugroho]

thanks bro

[mehulsharma20]

This worked for me. Thanks a lot

[DoucheHombre]

It worked for me ,Thankyou

[Ameensam1]

Thanks, it helps. Your tips really solved my problem

[noumanriazz]

how to solve in this problem

nothing to commit, working tree clean

[gracyashhh]

Thanks a lot! That worked

[gitroombed]

Well done 😗 😚

[GabrielRogath]

Thanks @akgarg007. It saved me couple of hours Sir next 007.

[GowravTata]

rm -rf .git
This command removes the .git folder in the Local Repository
Try this out. It would certainly work. Drop the forward slash it will work.

Coming to question I’m back to square one.

[ChomyT]

very true

[akr62602]

works on windows?

[benhynes]

This is a very useful pattern. Thanks so much!

[ghost]

this is not working for me. its saying rf is no a recognized command.

[BagusCPaste]

nice 🤩
is work for me thanks you

[c4ldodecana]

Thanks veeeery much!!!

[Brisa-Codes]

this has worked for me, thank you

[dvc1231978]

Hello! I am having the same issue with:

On branch master
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean

I am practicing with https://github.com/ibm-developer-skills-network/vftvk-Simple-Interest-Calculator.

On my first attempt. everything went fine until it came time to run the git push command. I ended up deleting my original forked repository and creating a new one, but ever since I did that, I’ve been getting the “nothing to commit, working tree clean” message, after making updates to several files in the project. I am wondering if I maybe forked and deleted the repo too many times? I even tried creating a second github account to start over from scratch but still I am having the same problem.

This is what I’ve been doing:

git clone https://github.com/dvc1231978a/vftvk-Simple-Interest-Calculator.git

I then go to Github Pages for this repo and select the master branch as the source. I then make changes to index.html, style.css, and script.js files. In the terminal, I then run the following:

cd vftvk-Simple-Interest-Calculator
git status

It is at this point where I get frustrated. The changes to files that I made go unacknowledged.

I also tried rm -rf.git and git init. It did seem to do the trick the first time, but I started having issues when I tried to push the code, and the rm -rf.git has not worked since that first attempt.

[brunooliveira09]

rm .git -Recurse -Force

[HassanSj]

The message "Nothing to commit, working tree clean" is not an issue; it's an informational message typically displayed by Git when you run the git status command. This message indicates that your Git repository is in a clean state, meaning there are no uncommitted changes in your working directory.

Here's what each part of the message means:

• "Nothing to commit": This part of the message indicates that there are no changes in your working directory that have been staged for commit. In other words, you have not used the git add command to stage any changes for your next commit.

• "Working tree clean": This part of the message means that your working directory (the actual files and directories in your project) matches the current state of the last commit in your Git repository. There are no untracked files, modified files, or files that need to be committed.

In summary, when you see this message, it means that your project is up to date and there's nothing new to commit at that moment. It's a good indication that your code is in sync with your Git repository. If you've made changes and want to commit them, you'll need to use git add to stage the changes and then git commit to create a new commit with those changes.

[aliqulov03]

I can't delete the .git file like that. Because this project might be deleted. Any other solutions

[saurabhprasadsah]

These type of issue will be getting when I am using this command on github.

[saurabhprasadsah]

Is there any solutions for this?

[397624351]

这是我解决这个问题的方法：

1.查看安装各hexo插件的情况
npm ls --depth 0

2.使用npm ls --depth 0 没有报错先去hexo根目录下的 package.json 查看有没有 hexo-renderer-markdown-it 如果没有需要下载

npm install hexo-renderer-markdown-it
or
npm install hexo-renderer-markdown-it-plus

之后输入 hexo g 再 hexo d 上传到网络

[cnwanneka]

What solved mine was by saving the edited file. Apparently, it wasn't saving automatically. Once saved, the letter M (modified) appears next to the file name and the file was able to be committed and pushed to git. Good luck.