Why does Git say my master branch is “already up to date” even though it is not?

Question

Basic Problem

I just deleted ALL the code from a file in my project and committed the change to my local git (on purpose). I did

git pull upstream mas         


        

Answer 1

Just a friendly reminder if you have files locally that aren't in github and yet your git status says

Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. nothing to commit, working tree clean

It can happen if the files are in .gitignore

Try running

cat .gitignore 

and seeing if these files show up there. That would explain why git doesn't want to move them to the remote.