CONTRIBUTORS and Contributors folders need to be deleted.

[kwurst]

@jlord:

CONTRIBUTORS and Contributors folders have been created.

When cloned on a Mac they overwrite the contributors folder with a CONTRIBUTORS folder.

• If you create the add-username.txt file in your add-username branch in the CONTRIBUTORS folder and commit, reporobot will not find it.
• If you rename CONTRIBUTORS to contributors, then add the file and commit, reporobot will not find it.
• If you delete CONTRIBUTORS, create contributors, then add the file and commit, reporobot will find it and add the picture. BUT, when you submit the pull request, you get a complaint about too many files. Add kwurst #27931

The CONTRIBUTORS and Contributors folders need to be deleted. And there must be some way to prevent others from recreating them, or to prevent reporobot from merging them in a pull request.

[FrankwaP]

Yes, these 3 case-different folders are a PITA for Windows and Mac users, since the filenames/foldernames are case insensitive for these two OS.

I did this:

1. delete the CONTRIBUTORS and Contributors folder
2. creating a tmp folder and store my add-usernam.txt in it
3. rename this tmp folder to contributors. I'm not so sure, but I think git mv works better than mv alone in this regard: with the first one I get contributors/add-usernam.txt in y commit, but with the latest I get CONTRIBUTORS/add-usernam.txt. I'm too much of a beginner to understand why...
4. git status to check the only things that will be committed is contributors/add-usernam.txt (no deletion of anything)
5. commit/push/pull-request

My pull-request has been accepted, and I now have my name on the webpage!

... but I can't see my file in the contributors folder of jlord's depo ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jlord]

Hey!

Sorry, that folder is supposed to be getting periodically cleared so that it doesn't get so huge but that's apparently broken 😢 I'll open an issue for it on jlord/reporobot#40.

[KateDay]

This is still an issue btw...

[hernandez87v]

anyone else stuck theres another "Patchwork" folder within patchwork that contains "contributors":

• Lesson 7 Branches Aren't Just For Birds
• cd Patchwork
• when you get to "$ git add " put "git add contributors/add-yourUsername"

[MeghanBarritt]

The patchwork>contributors folder is not actually the solution anymore, at least on Windows. I have tried putting my txt file in all of the different 'contributors' folders, as well as deleting the nested contributors folder. The only time I manage to push at all was when I had the txt file in completely the wrong folder (the top level project folder), but I cannot replicate that and I was unable to make that merge. @jlord