Files created by Terminal are not visible in my Finder
So I've been trying to create a text file using Git, I punched in the command "touch home.html", then I punched in the command git "add home.html", then I input "git status" and the file doesn't want to appear, I have relaunched the finder multiple times, nothing.
Solution 1:
You're running git status
in the wrong repository (your home directory, ~
, i.e. /Users/adam
). You need to move into the repo that you want to act on, i.e. cd ~/Desktop/Tools/Git/MyFolder
, or a subdirectory of this, and then run git status
.
You've created the home.html
file in ~
.
You must have run git init
on your home directory or a parent of it, i.e. /Users/adam
, /Users
, or /
. The first is most likely, as the others would require use of sudo
. You can forget about / get rid of this repo by running rm -rf .git
within that directory.
I encourage you to learn the basics of Git by watching this video.
Here's a good video on Linux terminal basics as well. macOS isn't Linux, but it's Unix-based, just like Linux, so the principles are the same; the knowledge directly applies to macOS.