failed to sync branch You 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 no history of my changes.

The client has no indication that anything is out of date (there are no “uncommitted changes”). But there are “unsynced commits”:

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How do 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 moves for about 7 seconds) is:

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

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Clicking OPEN SHELL, causes a powershell prompt to appear, where i type:

debug the state of this repo

But that doesn’t seem to do it:

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How do i sync unsynced commits in the GitHub for Windows client?

Solution:
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

The prompt says there is no such directory as .git, the solution is as follows.

git init will work