I haven’t had any issues getting anything local to push to Neocities through Github. If it’s in the right folder, it will show up in Neocities.
When I try to deploy this little folder of an 11ty tutorial, double-checked that it’s in the right place, and I get this error:
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It only happens with 11ty files and I’m not sure exactly what/if I’m supposed to push in the CLI?
I feel really dumb trying to figure this out and phrase it so I am asking the correct question here. Happy to share more from my repo etc if that helps.
This is a git error message. Basically what you push up to Github is a list of changes (called a commit). What this error message is telling you is that the list of changes you want to push to Github is empty, because you have not told git to pay attention to the src/eleventy-demo/ directory.
I’m not sure of the specifics of how the software you are using in the screenshot interacts with git, but to resolve this, you’re most likely looking for what buttons to click in your software to add (track) files in git. Happy to help further if you can provide some more information about the coding environment.
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Thank you so much! I had to walk away from it for tonight but I’ll look at it and get back to you!
Thank you! I’m looking back into it. The software in the screenshot is Github Desktop. How do I get it to not ignore those files? Is there a way to override this via terminal?
I assume it’s the + icon next to the folder (see Committing and reviewing changes to your project in GitHub Desktop - GitHub Docs) Otherwise, you can use git add src/eleventy-demo in the terminal.
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Thanks so much and thanks for your patience, I am still learning so much stuff that’s basic for so many people.
I ran that git add script but it appears that nothing happened in the terminal that I can see
However! I did get it to push to my GitHub repo which is here (now titled 11ty-demo-main). It’s still the only thing unable to get pushed from my repo to Neocities for some reason
You can use git status to see the current state of the repo. Does src/eleventy-demo-main exist in that directory? That’s different than the directory name in the screenshot.
I deleted and reinstalled the files since the initial screenshot a couple days ago when I was trying to troubleshoot it, it’s called eleventy-demo-main everywhere now. I ran git status and it showed me this
which seems good!
It shows up as eleventy-demo-main in my home directory and the repo, this issue now is it just not deploying to Neocities from the repo. Unless there is something else I’m not understanding which is entirely possible!
Could you describe your directory structure for this project and what you see on the github repo?
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I think I figured out my issue - I was using a tutorial a couple of years old and there’s been an update that was causing an pretty common error, I am going to try again with a more recent update. Thanks for helping me - I’m still learning how to ask questions and provide information about how I’ve got things structured (which is currently not well, I’ve learned!)
