title: What does it mean when git only shows a directory containing untracked files, but not the files themselves?
body: <p>Relative newbie to git, so this may be something pretty basic. On the other hand, I searched around quite a bit for this answer before asking.</p>
  
  <p>In my git repository, if I create any files in a particular subdirectory (a few levels down from the main repository directory), and run <code>git status</code>, git doesn't list the files in that directory, but just its name.</p>
  
  <p>I would have thought that it had something to do with how many levels down it is, but other untracked files in other subdirectories the same number of levels away (or more) are listed without any problem.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone know if there's some setting or some entry in some file somewhere that would cause this behaviour?</p>