git: can't commit without staging: 'test/test-ext-authprovider/' does not have a commit checked out

[aeschli]

Version: 1.53.0-insider
Commit: 8490d3d
Date: 2021-02-03T15:54:10.467Z
Electron: 11.2.1
Chrome: 87.0.4280.141
Node.js: 12.18.3
V8: 8.7.220.31-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.8.0-41-generic

In the vscode repo,

• I make changes to a number of files
• In the SCM view, I click directly on the Commit button
• Strange error dialog shows up: error: 'test/test-ext-authprovider/' does not have a commit checked out
  

Using git 2.27.0 from git
...

> git add -A -- .
error: 'test/test-ext-authprovider/' does not have a commit checked out
fatal: adding files failed
> git fetch

I have set:
"git.smartCommitChanges": "all"

[eamodio]

@aeschli what is test/test-ext-authprovider/? Do you have something odd in your .gitconfig or in the .git/config file in the vscode repo?

[aeschli]

Looks like I have a folder test/test-ext-authprovider in my vscode repo folder.
How it got there I don't understand.
It only has empty folders in it so it doesn't show up as an outgoing change. But it still seems to block auto commit.

[eamodio]

I can't reproduce this by creating empty folders like this. But the failure seems to be coming directly from git given your output:

> git add -A -- .
error: 'test/test-ext-authprovider/' does not have a commit checked out
fatal: adding files failed

So I don't think there is anything we can do here. Might be a bug in Git.