I am new emberjs and trying to track my project via github. I currently have a directory tracking my changes /workspace, which should contain a subdirectory /workspace/currentproj. The top level directory is being tracked by my github however the lower level changes are not. When I check the status on currentproj the files are being track but not by my remote repo. In the ember-cli-update.json file I see a reference to a "outputRepo": "https://github.com/ember-cli/ember-new-output". I am wondering if that is where I need to add my repo information. If so its not working. How do track changes using my current repo?

I am using a mac air m1 with atom editor.

CodePudding user response：

It is tricky to help you here, because you mix ember and git things, while they are actually unrelated.

About the ember-cli-update.json: you should not edit this, the outputRepo is about where ember-cli-upgrade will take the output of a new ember app to upgrade your app.

Now, also try to avoid mixing git and github. Github is an online platform for git, but the tool you locally use it git, and unrelated to github. Its the other way around: Github is a platform for git, not git is a tool from Github.

I'm not sure how you created the git repos, but one importing thing here: ember new by default generates a git repo! Now I assume your issue may be the following:

• you created a new ember project within /workspace named currentproject, before there was a git repository for /workspace.
• this created the new folder /workspace/currentproj, which is a git repository.
• you then created a git reposity for /workspace, now you have 2 nested git repositories.

To investigate this its important to understand one thing: A git repository is a folder with a .git folder in it. Nothing else, there is no magic to it. This is how you can move a folder containing a repo around.

I would suggest to check if there is a /workspace/currentproj/.git folder. If there is, you probably can safely delete it, since you want git to use the /workspace/.git repo for this subfolder.

If this was not your issue another thing could be, that git status does not list files folders without tracked files. You will only see the folder. However a git add --all should add these files, so this could also be a possible issue.

Generally when troubleshooting git its good to look for .git folders and investigate the output of git status and git log. In your case you could run these commands from within /workspace and /workspace/currentproj and compare to investigate.