GitHub projects "un-clickable" in repo

Question

I have a very strange problem and I cannot get down to the bottom of it. I have pushed some projects to my Repo on GitHub and two of them are black and un-clickable and I have no idea why.

This is the push:

C:\Users\keilc\Documents\GitHub\homeprojects [master +0 ~1 -0]> git push origin master
Counting objects: 108, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (105/105), done.
Writing objects: 100% (108/108), 3.71 MiB | 111.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 108 (delta 4), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://github.com/KeilCarpenter/Home-Projects.git
 * [new branch]      master -> master

What is going on? I have no idea at all

Carlist

Answer 1

Those are nested git repo whose SHA1 has been recorded as gitlink (even though they are not submodules), a special entry in the index.

It means you must have .git folder under those two directories in your local machine.

One possible option would be to:

• remove those two folders (followed by a git add -A ., git commit -m "remove nested git repos")
• add them back as submodule: git submodule add /url/to/rpeo/RectionTester, then add, commit and push)

From there, a those folders still won't be clickable on GitHub, but at least a git clone --recursive of your main repo will be enough to get their content back locally.

Seumas