Question

git on OSX sees a modified subdir, but won’t ‘add’ it; how can I fix this? THANKS!
(I don’t believe there are any open files in that subdir)

~/gitrepo/python: git status
# On branch br1
# 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:   v0/mage-Upload (modified content)
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
~/gitrepo/python: git add v0
~/gitrepo/python: git add v0/mage-Upload    <-- I guess that was unnecessary
~/gitrepo/python: git diff
diff --git a/v0/mage-Upload b/v0/mage-Upload
--- a/v0/mage-Upload
+++ b/v0/mage-Upload
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 7c377092f1f5cbbeecc03ebb533259c23606506e
+Subproject commit 7c377092f1f5cbbeecc03ebb533259c23606506e-dirty
~/gitrepo/python: git commit -a
# On branch br1
# 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:   v0/mage-Upload (modified content)
#
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Answer 1

You apparently have a submodule in ‘v0/mage-Upload’ – you will need to handle the changes in the submodule before the changes in the ‘super module’. Do something like:

cd vo/mage-Upload
git status
git commit    # Careful if the submodule is not on a branch
              #   see 'git submodule' documentation
git push ...  # Specific to your submodule

At this point you can return the the ‘super module’ and commit the change to the submodule reference.