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

I was doing:

git add AppName/View Controllers/Sections/Devices/DeviceContainerViewController.swift

But was getting the following error:

fatal: pathspec 'AppName/View' did not match any files

As you can see the command is breaking between View & Controllers because there's a space.

I just had to wrap my path into double quotes. It's not normally necessary, but when you have spaces you need to.

git add "AppName/View Controllers/Sections/Devices/DeviceContainerViewController.swift"