git add . -> still “nothing to commit” with new files

Your commands look correct (I’ve done them many times that way).

First try

git add --all

and then try git status. I don’t think that will solve it, but worth trying next.

Next try looking at your .gitignore file, if you have one (in the top level where you did git init).

cat .gitignore

Remove any listings there that are causing your files to be ignored. For example is there an entry with just *?

Next try:

git add --force

and then try git status.

If none of those work, I notice that your output from git init says “reinitialized” rather than “initialized”, so something may have gotten messed up. If you’ve just initialized it and don’t mind losing history, start over by removing the .git dir:

rm -rf .git

And then reexecute your same commands above. If that doesn’t work, some more information about your setup will be required. For example, you might have a global .gitignore file: ~/.gitignore_global that needs to edited (or removed if you don’t want it).

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