Question

After creating a Git Repository using the terminal application using the following commands

Focusing the shell on the project directory

$ cd ~/Desktop/Myproject

Setting up the Git Repository

$ git init

Preparing the files for the "staging area"

$ git add .

Making my first commit

$ git commit -m 'Initial Checkin'

When I now try to commit in Xcode, I get

The operation could not be performed because no valid working copies were found.

Please verify that your files are under source control and try again.

But if I modify any of the project files and $ git status in to shell, it will tell me that what ever file I fiddled around with in Xcode has been modified and the I can commit from there. Why not in Xcode??

I had a loot at Can't commit changes to local git repository but the suggestions did not solve the problem.

Answer 1

If restarting XCode doesn’t help, since you are saying it works fine through terminal, try adding it again in XCode.

go to Organzier–> Repositories –> Add Repository (bottom left corner)–>Set the correct values and local path to your project

my guess is, since you created the repository outside XCode, for some reason, its not detecting it right, or is not having the right permissions. Re-adding the repository through XCode may help solve this issue for you.