Visual Studio Code Git shows all changes on drive?

Question

I am using Visual Studio Code 1.6.0 on a Macbook.

I'm finding that the VSC GIT is listing tons of changes - even ones that are not in my working folder?

When I hover over these I get a tooltip:

"This file is located outside the current workspace."

Please advise how I can remove all these from the GIT panel.

Answer 1

Here is how you can avoid such issues in VSCode

• Go back to folder using cd ..
• Check if git has been initialzed using git status
• If yes, remove git tracking with command rm -rf .git
• Repeat this until you reach your root directory
• and reload your vs code to track current directory