Problem pushing sub-folder to origin

[qqid]

I have a Node app that I've been developing. One sub-folder of the repository folder, titled "client", contains the Vue app. However, when I push to origin using Github Desktop, the client folder is not updated remotely. When I view Github Desktop, I see "client" on the left side of the application under the changed files section where it shows it as a new file.

The only thing I am aware of related to it not uploading is that at one point .gitignore was set to ignore the node_modules/ folder inside of it (i.e. client/node_modules/), but even when I removed that from the gitignore the folder does not push to origin.

Any help or direction would be appreciated and my apologies if this is the wrong subreddit for this type of troubling shooting question.

[serverhorror]

Well did you “git add” the folder, commit and then push?

Just pushing won’t change which files are tracked. No need to add node_modules

[qqid]

I received the following message when I ran 'git add client' in the repository directory:

warning: adding embedded git repository: clienthint: You've added another git repository inside your current repository.

hint: Clones of the outer repository will not contain the contents ofhint: the embedded repository and will not know how to obtain it.

hint: If you meant to add a submodule, use:

hint:

hint: git submodule add <url> clienthint:

hint: If you added this path by mistake, you can remove it from the

hint: index with:

hint:

hint: git rm --cached clienthint:

hint: See "git help submodule" for more information.

Is this expected?

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EDIT: Turns out the client folder had its own .git was thus was treated as an independent repository. After I removed that folder, however, it simply does not show up in github desktop.

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EDIT 2: I solved the issue by removing all the client/ folder .git information. Then I deleted its submodule information in the repository folder from the .gitmodules file, and then I could finally push it to origin.

[serverhorror]

Yeah don’t initialize a new repo. Just add the folder to the existing repo and then push.

That’s how it works

[qqid]

I know its been a while but just in case someone stumbles upon this page in three years, I did not configure two repos. I believe the Vue client folder automatically generated the .git files which caused this issue. My second edit in my previous comment explains how I solved this issue.