How to preserve git modified files in docker dev container

I am using remote container extension in VSCode to work with my docker containers. While I am able to make a remote connection to my client container for example, the git history is showing most of the files as modified or deleted. How do I go about keeping git in-sync with my local project structure?

My local setup looks as the following,

- app
   - client
      - .devcontainer
      - Dockerfile
   - server
      - .devcontainer
      - Dockerfile
   - docker-compose.yml

My docker-compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  server:
    build: ./server
    volumes:
      - ~/.ssh:/root/.ssh
      - ./server/src:/app/src
      - api-modules:/app/node_modules
  client:
    build: ./client
    depends_on:
      - server
    volumes:
      - ~/.ssh:/root/.ssh
      - ./.git:/app/.git
      - web-modules:/app/node_modules
      - ./client/src:/app/src
      - ./client/public:/app/public
volumes:
  api-modules:
  web-modules:

Client Dockerfile

FROM node:10

COPY . /app/

WORKDIR /app

ENTRYPOINT yarn start;