title: Error in Git- fatal: '/Users/username/Downloads/folder_name' is outside repository
body: <p>When I am adding a new project to git, I am getting this error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Error - fatal: '/Users/username/Downloads/folder_name' is outside repository
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How to get ride of this error? I think, I need to give the current working directory. But, don't know how to do that..Can anyone help me out of this? 
  But when I add new file directly, it works fine..
  Your help is highly appreciated..Thanks in advance.</p>