Git showing (modified content, untracked content) on Roots theme directory

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Hi, I’m trying to manage my entire WP site in git but the Roots theme directory isn’t being tracked. Steps so far:

  • create and work on ‘draft’ wp site with roots theme in local dev env
  • init bare git repo on server (Webfaction)
  • clone the git repo from server to local dev env
  • in finder, copy files from ‘draft’ wp site to the empty git repo
  • git add and commit

All goes well, except Terminal tells me:

Changes not staged for commit:
#   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
#   (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)
#
#	modified:   www/wp-content/themes/roots-oppfund2014 (modified content, untracked content)

and git add -A doesn’t add the directory as expected

a little research suggests its a git submodule thing, but i don’t have experience with that feature of git.

any suggestions or answers are appreciated.

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When you cloned the Roots repo, you uhh… cloned the repo. So if you go to your roots-oppfund2014/ directory then you probably have the .git/ directory which you can safely delete. Just do rm -rf .git/.

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Thank you, @cfx!

For anyone else with the same issue, after removing .git/ I also had to move the entire roots/ directory outside the themes/ folder (and entire wp project), commit that deletion, then add the roots/ directory back into themes/ and commit that addition before git started tracking changes as expected.

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Great, glad you got it sorted.