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

Use double quotes in the file name as shown below and it should work perfectly.

Error:

fatal: pathspec 'index.html' did not match any files

Solution:

git add "file_name"