Greyed out folder in GitHub repo?

Question

Hey so I pushed a new folder to my GitHub repository and well it is greyed out. Why?

I\'m new to git and have probably done something to git to cause this so how can i s

Answer 1

A gray folder on GitHub looks like a submodule, as I mentioned in:

• "What is this grey git icon?"
• "What does a grey icon in remote GitHub mean"

It is not a sub-folder, but a special entry in the index which marks it as a submodule-like.

If you don't have a .gitmodules file in your main repo, that special entry is typical of adding a nested repo: check if your dist/ folder has itself a .git/ subfolder.

To fix the issue, try a git rm --cached dist (no trailing slash).
See more at "Cannot remove submodule from Git repo"

git rm --cached dist
git commit -m "Remove submodule entry"
rm -Rf dist/.git # delete the nested repo
git add dist
git commit -m "Add dist plain subfolder"
git push