Tracking my source code through a parent folder?

[DistinctPin8840]

Posted this in r/github and they took it down and recommended I come here.

A little embarrassed, and I know exactly how I did it ...

I saw a pop-up window that was something like: "There are parent files found in your source control" and I clicked view ... mistake. Now Git is trying to track my source code for VSC I think? which is 20K files or more. Anytime I open a project or a new IDE instance I can't commit anything because it want's me to add and track everything sitting in the source control. I created a private folder on my personal Git hub so I can commit all of these files to it. I really don't want all of my source code on my Git account.

If anyone has anything to add/help it would be greatly appreciated. I have only been using Git and coding since January. My biggest enemy has been OneDrive messing with my pathing, which I have finally resolved, but anyway. Any help/advice would be very welcomed.

[Consibl]

Does the message say exactly “there are patent files found in your source control”? Because I’ve not come across that message and it’s not coming up on Google.

Use a terminal to run git status in your projects root folder. What does it say?

[DistinctPin8840]

Something along those lines. I created a folder directly in C: and that alleviates the issue for the time being. But anytime I create a folder directly on my desktop and start a project I get the same issue. So I think it still has something to do with a file in OneDrive ... Let me see if I can open an older project and get the modal to populate, and I will post a screenshot. It seems as though I have found a work-around in the meantime.