title: How to Add ALL of the contents in a folder to my GitHub Repo
body: <p>I am new to git and github in particular. I am using gitbash, and I would like to upload EVERYTHING in my project folder to the repo on github.</p>
  
  <p>I intially did it with the web based GUI, but for some reason it strips ALL of my files from their folder and places them all in one directory, which is weird because when I did this with a different project it went fine with all the directory structure intact.</p>
  
  <p>Now for using gitbash, I first did a git init on my directory where the project lives, then did all of the config steps to get to my remote repo. When I do a git add, and then git status, it doesnt list any files (but ls does show all of my files and folders). When I create a new test file and then do git add ., then git status - it shows the new test file.</p>
  
  <p>I am totally confused after an entire day of youtube and SO, I cannot push a project to the remote repo via gitbash, and cannot seem to do so in the GUI WITHOUT all of my files being stripped from their directory and put in one single directory.</p>