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Development Tools Introduction to Git Managing Committed Files Removing Files

can't pull up file:

treehouse:~/workspace$ git status
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home/treehouse/worksp ace)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
treehouse:~/workspace$ git add tin.html
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home/treehouse/worksp ace)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).
treehouse:~/workspace$ git commit -m add tin medals
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home/treehouse/worksp ace)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

1 Answer

You've somehow ended up back in the parent directory.

cd medals

will take you to the working directory where your commands should work fine.

Well, most of them, you're also missing the quotation marks from the commit command message.