tags folder getting ignored

[StevenXL]

Hi folks.

I have a nextjs project that I am building, and for some reason, git is ignoring a directory called tags. This is my directory structure:

Directory Structure

If I were to copy the contents of the tags folder into a tests directory, then git will start tracking it.

I haven't modified my .gitignore (reproduced in full below). I just can't explain the behavior I am seeing, and I was wondering if the NextJS project somehow treats such a directory as special?

# See https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files/ for more about ignoring files.

# dependencies
/node_modules
/.pnp
.pnp.js

# testing
/coverage

# next.js
/.next/
/out/

# production
/build

# misc
.DS_Store

# debug
npm-debug.log*
yarn-debug.log*
yarn-error.log*

# local env files
.env.local
.env.development.local
.env.test.local
.env.production.local

Thank you for any help.

[rafaelalmeidatk]

You may have another git config somewhere in your system that is ignoring a folder called tags. Try to manually add these files with git add pages/tags/[tag].js

If the file is being ignored, you will see an output like

The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:

If you see this then you have two solutions: find the .gitignore file (you should also look at .git/info/exclude and the core.excludesfile config) and remove the tags folder, or add the files with the -f flag: git add -f pages/tags/[tag].js

[StevenXL]

You are 100% spot on. I used the -f flag. Thank you very much!