So, firstly git wasn't even detected as being initialized in my repos. That was fixed running this command:
xcode-select --install
this got git back up and running, but now I'm having a more specific problem.
I have a git repo where I merged another repo into it. (basically a node & react project that were each in separate repos, but now combined into one).
it will detect changes made in the parent (node) project but not in the child repo. if I make small changes and check out the git status I get:
On branch master Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
Which is not true. Anyone have any experience with this and can tell me how I can fix this?