Troubleshooting misplaced .git directory (nothing to commit)

Question

I started getting this message. No matter what I edit and try to commit, it says there is nothing to commit. Looks like git does not see my working directory and looking som

Answer 1

I had the same issue. The branch I was working on wasn't being tracked. The fix was:

git push orgin

This fixed it temporarily. To make the changes pertinently I:

git config push.default tracking