Looker won't let me commit because a file that doesn't exist, was supposedly deleted

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As soon as I change a particular model file in my project (even adding one blank line to test), I’m unable to commit because Looker believes a different file (that never existed) was deleted.

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When I look into the commit history there is nothing about this file existing or being deleted. Is there some gotcha I’m missing, or is this a straight-up bug?

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Hi there, I’ve encountered the same issue. Have you found a solution yet?

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Something that I have seen work in the past is to have a colleague push your branch’s changes from their account.

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I received this error message fatal: pathspec ‘Administration/Views/file.view.lkml’ did not match any files too. This fixed it for me, so hopefully might help others:

  1. save your uncommitted changes externally to the branch as you will be reverting uncommitted changes
  2. Create the file name in the correct path as the error message
  3. Revert uncommitted changes
  4. You can then delete that file and any references from it, or revert to prod and add your original changes back into your code and commit etc.

Also Hi Gavin :D! :ocean:

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Just posted the solution that worked for me if you still are having the issue