Fatal: pathspec 'file.txt' did not match any files, GIT

Question

I have just started learing GIT. Follow their tutorial.

Now at the very beginning I got stuck with this error:

Fatal: pathspec \'file.txt\' did not match         


        

Answer 1

The files don't exist, so they cannot be added. Make sure the files have been created first.

D:\temp\hi>git init
Initialized empty Git repository in D:/temp/hi/.git/

D:\temp\hi>dir
 Volume in drive D is Data
 Volume Serial Number is 744F-7845

 Directory of D:\temp\hi

2013-11-25  12:59 AM              .
2013-11-25  12:59 AM              ..
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  1,331,387,256,832 bytes free

D:\temp\hi>git add hi.txt
fatal: pathspec 'hi.txt' did not match any files

D:\temp\hi>echo hello > hi.txt

D:\temp\hi>git add hi.txt

D:\temp\hi>dir
 Volume in drive D is Data
 Volume Serial Number is 744F-7845

 Directory of D:\temp\hi

2013-11-25  12:59 AM              .
2013-11-25  12:59 AM              ..
2013-11-25  12:59 AM                 8 hi.txt
               1 File(s)              8 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  1,331,387,256,832 bytes free