How do I get Git to notice a change in the contents of a directory that has been replaced with the same name?

Question

git

I had a frontend folder in my my_site
directory, I push the my_site directory to gihab
after some time, I delete the frontend folder with all the contents in it and transfer the folder there from another place with the name frontend. But with :
git add .
git commit "some commit"
writes: There
is nothing to commit on the master branch, there are no changes in the working directory,
and if you try to push:
it push -u origin master
, then I don’t have any changes, and the old version of everything hangs there
How to make the contents change frontend directory was noticed by git?

Answer 1

Either the added directory is identical to the previous one, or it is ignored.
Are the directories different? What's in .gitignore? What does git status say?