Why is there "nothing to commit" after I added my new directory?

Ok this is really frustrating me. I'm used to working with SVN, and am new to git. I had a folder called X in git already. A collobarator made changes to X and commited it, and I updated it. I made changes to it, and now I want to save it as X2 as a new folder. So I duplicated the X folder locally, and 开发者_如何学运维now I want to add this to github. So I did

cd X2 
git init 
git add X2 
git commit -m "changes" 
git push origin master

I also tried being in the parent directory where both X and X2 are located, then git add X2 and commit and push, but I keep getting "nothing to commit".

What am I doing wrong?

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Why are you doing a git init before adding X2. Git init is done only when creating a repo. Also note that git add only adds files, not directories.

Apart from that git add X2 should work perfectly fine, when you are in root / parent. From within the folder itself do git add .

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Commit a proper .gitignore file first. Then you can do a 'git add -A'. All the files you don't want will be skipped.

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Try using "git add ." this will add all the files in the current working directory to the stage (aka ready to be committed). Hope this works!