Answer in the bottom.
I am trying to see the status of my files in the git_test2 directory which contains 3 files named
Hmm i looks a bit that you have your .git folder not in your product but i few folder above. Then when you are in your project and you make a git status and you see ../../ that means that you are on the second level in your Git repository.
Perhaps you should clone that repository again and check you git structure.