git commit error: pathspec 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git
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I am trying to upload a Ruby app to Heroku. I start with git init and then I type git add . and then I use git commit -m initial commit.
Whenever I use git commit -m, I receive an error message saying:
> git commit error:pathspect 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git.
I have been told that this is happening because the arguments are in the wrong order.
The thing I noticed is that when I use git add . it will not list the files that are being added because it will just go to the next line.
I suspect that I am having this problem because my files are not really being added.
I would appreciate any advice about how to correct this problem.
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
The command line arguments are separated by space. If you want provide an argument with a space in it, you should quote it. So use git commit -m "initial commit".
Solution 2 - Git
I would just like to add--
In windows the commit message should be in double quotes (git commit -m "initial commit" instead of git commit -m 'initial commit'), as I spent about an hour, just to figure out that single quote is not working in windows.
Solution 3 - Git
In my case, this error was due to special characters what I was considering double quotes as I copied the command from a web page.
Solution 4 - Git
I figured out mistake here use double quotations instead of single quotations.
change this
git commit -m 'initial commit'
to
git commit -m "initial commit"
Solution 5 - Git
Had this happen to me when committing from Xcode 6, after I had added a directory of files and subdirectories to the project folder. The problem was that, in the Commit sheet, in the left sidebar, I had checkmarked not only the root directory that I had added, but all of its descendants too. To solve the problem, I checkmarked only the root directory. This also committed all of the descendants, as desired, with no error.
Solution 6 - Git
Had this happen to me when committing from Xcode 6, after I had added a directory of files and subdirectories to the project folder. The problem was that, in the Commit sheet, in the left sidebar, I had checkmarked not only the root directory that I had added, but all of its descendants too. To solve the problem, I checkmarked only the root directory. This also committed all of the descendants, as desired, with no error.
Solution 7 - Git
I have encounter the same problem. my syntax has no problem. What I found is that I copied and pasted git commit -m "comments" from my note. I retype it, the command execute without issue. It turns out the - and " " are the problem when I copy paste to terminal.
Solution 8 - Git
In my case, the problem was I used wrong alias for git commit -m. I used gcalias which dit not meant git commit -m
Solution 9 - Git
if there are anybodys using python os to invoke git,u can use os.system('git commit -m " '+str(comment)+'"')
Solution 10 - Git
In my case the problem was I had forgotten to add the switch -m before the quoted comment. It may be a common error too, and the error message received is exactly the same
Solution 11 - Git
Solved! Here is how I solved this issue:
- Made an app on Heroku first and prepared all the codes in local_folder to push into it.
- Cloned the remote app using
heroku git:clone -a app_name - then
cd app_name - then copied all the codes into this folder from local_folder
- then
git add . - then
git commit -am "initial commit" - then
git push heroku master - Viola!