The Project is Missing from Champion

Sometimes, users open Champion (or any other git Desktop client app) and find that their project is missing from the app or unavailable through the Open Project tool. One of the most common causes of this is renaming or deleting the project folders outside the app.

Why does this happen?

Renaming your project folder breaks the link between Champion and Git for several reasons:

• Git tracks folder paths: Git relies on exact file and folder paths to track changes. Renaming a folder breaks this path, causing Git to lose track of the project.
• Champion expects consistency: Champion uses these folder paths to locate and manage projects. When the path changes due to renaming, Champion can no longer find the project.
• No automatic detection: Git does not have a built-in way to detect renamed folders, so it treats the renamed folder as a new, untracked entity. As a result, your project disappears from Champion.

Solution

Unfortunately, Git does not handle folder renaming well, and this breaks the link between the project and Git. To resolve this, you need to create a new project in Champion and manually copy your old project files into this new folder.

Steps to fix the issue

1. Open Champion and create a new project. Ensure the folder name is something you intend to stick with.
2. Locate your old project folder (the one you renamed).
3. Copy all the contents from the old folder (ctrl + a, ctrl + c) and paste (ctrl + v) them into the new project folder created in Champion.
4. Open Champion and use the Open Project tool to verify the project is now properly recognized.