Visual Studio 2013 Github commit deadlock

Question

A few friends and I are working on a project via GitHub. We are all sharing the same branch, which may or may not be a good idea.

I edited some of the code and committed

Answer 1

As dumb as it sounds, I just went to the command line, and it worked.

1. Git status
2. Git pull
3. Git push

all worked fine.

If I did that same thing within Visual Studio, it didn't work. Go figure.