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

Just give a file path while adding file to git add command, it works for me

$ git add mainFolder/.../file.extension

Note: mainFolder would be the folder inside your repo