Anyone else noticed Github Desktop missing files and lines within files, so old files stay up, new files dont get uploaded and changes to documents get missed?
Is there an easy way to force a reset so the whole document gets uploaded?
TIA
Hi Richard
You’re probably seeing that because the files or changes are being ignored by .gitignore, or Git isn’t detecting them as real text changes (for example, only timestamps, permissions, or line-ending normalisation changed). GitHub Desktop will only show and upload changes that Git itself detects.
Under the hood, GitHub Desktop is just a visual client for the standard Git tool — it doesn’t have its own separate sync logic. If Git isn’t tracking a change, GitHub Desktop can’t “see” it either, so the fix is usually to adjust your .gitignore, force Git to re-scan files, or re-add them so Git treats them as modified.
Mark
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I think Github is working slow. So some of the stuff has been uploaded, but its not been shown or available to download straight away, gone away, come back later and now its visible online.
They’ve had a couple of issues this week, but no idea if it’s related to what was happening with you. This page can be useful, though. https://www.githubstatus.com/
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