Git command moves me out of current directory into parent directory

Question

I've been having an issue with git. When I execute a command it will push me out of the working directory and into the parent directory. This happens somewhat frequently, maybe 25% of any git command

So I will do something along the lines:

$user at ubuntu-machine in /var/www/project/name: git add .
$user at ubuntu-machine in /var/www/project/name: git commit -m "Git message"
$user at ubuntu-machine in /var/www/project/name: fatal: Not a git repository

I'm currently running Ubuntu 16.04 with git version 2.7.4.

Has anyone else had this issue? Possible reasons why it's happening?

Any help is appreciated, thanks

Answer 1

I resolved my issue by updating from 2.7.4 to 2.11.0

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade git git-man