Failed to sync branch your might need to open a shell and debug the state of this repo.

failed to sync branch your might need to open a shell and debug the state of this repo.

I made some changes to a file a month ago. I just realized today that they didn ' t go anywhere; The GitHub Web-site has a history of my changes.

The client has a no indication that anything was out of date (there is no "uncommitted changes"). But there is "unsynced commits":

How does i sync unsynced commits?

I tried nothing, and I ' M fresh out of ideas

i tried clicking The sync  button (whatever that means), but all I get (after a progress bar MOV Es for on 7 seconds) is:

Failed to sync branch
You might need to open a shell and debug the state of this repo.

clicking open SHELL , causes a PowerShell prompt to appear, where I type:

debug The state of this repo  

But this doesn ' t seem to do it:

How does I sync unsynced commits in the GitHub for Windows client?

The workaround:

Fatal:not a git repository (or any of the parent directories):. git

Hint that there is no. Git such a folder, the workaround method is as follows:

Git init will be able!

Failed to sync branch your might need to open a shell and debug the state of this repo.