Renaming file issue

Question

I've gotten through step 8, but when I attempt step 9, I get the following message "fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git"

• What I type in for step 8 has been "git mv sample.txt exampl.txt"

  1. Open the Terminal/Git Bash and (using only the command line) create the following:

  2. Navigate to your Desktop or Directory: cd Desktop

  3. Once there, create a new directory named test: mkdir test

  4. Navigate into the test directory: cd test

  5. Check to see what's inside (it should be empty): ls

  6. Navigate back to Desktop: cd ..

  7. Move the sample.txt file into the test directory: mv sample.txt test

  8. Make sure this was successful: cd test press enter and then ls

  9. Rename the sample.txt file to example.txt

All the solutions I've found on google or githelp all seem to give me the same result.

Answer 1

Torek means you forgot to initialize the git repo (after step 2): git init.

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