“git add” returning “fatal: outside repository” error

Question

I\'m just entering into the wonderful world of git. I have to submit a bunch of changes that I\'ve made on my program, located in a directory called /var/www/myapp

Answer 1

Okay, this error came up for me because I moved the project from one computer to another.
So the git was not able to figure my global git user.name and user.email

I opened the command prompt and specified my old git user.name and user.email from previous computer. Kindly run the following commands and it should be fixed.

cd pathToMyProjectDirectory
git config user.name "myName" 
git config user.email "myEmail"