Question

I committed some changes to my project, and one of the things done was the movement of a file into another folder. I did the usual:

git add .
git commit -m "commit something"
git push origin

But on my github account, when looking at the project, the file I moved is still in the location before the movement. The file is also in the folder I moved it to. When looking at where it was moved, there is no commit info which I would think should happen, but there is on the old one. Is there a reason why this is? I am sorry if that is not very clear, please let me know if it needs to be made clearer.

Answer 1

When you move or rename a file, the old file reference is still there. You need to remove the file from git by…

git rm filename

And then commit.