Force git to add dotfiles to repository
how would you add files which are started with dot(hidden files) in git repo? when i am new at git , I also faced the same problem, as usual search on internet especially in stackoverflow.com i found the following question with a number of answer I got the same question on stackoverflow.com. following is query description stackoverflow.com query When I type "git add .", dotfiles in GIT_DIR are added, but not from subdirectories. On the other hand, "git add subdir/.dotfile" won't work. I tried "git add -f" and putting "!.*" in GIT_DIR/.git/info/exclude. Here is the answer you can simply type below command and hit enter git add */.* or find . -name '.[a-z]*' -exec git add '{}' ';'