“fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent

Question

This command works to get the files and compile them:

git clone a-valid-git-url

for example:

git clone git://cfdem.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/cfdem/liggghts

However, git status (or any other git command) then gives the above fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories) error.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I had another problem. I was in a git directory, but got there through a symlink. I had to go into the directory directly (i.e. not through the symlink) then it worked fine.

Answer 2

I just got this message and there is a very simple answer before trying the others. At the parent directory, type git init

This will initialize the directory for git. Then git add and git commit should work.

Answer 3

In my case, the original repository was a bare one.

So, I had to type (in windows):

mkdir   dest
cd dest
git init
git remote add origin a\valid\yet\bare\repository
git pull origin master

To check if a repository is a bare one:

git rev-parse --is-bare-repository 

Answer 4

In my case, was an environment variable GIT_DIR, which I added to access faster.

This also broke all my local repos in SourceTree :(

Answer 5

Simply, after you clone the repo you need to cd (change your current directory) to the new cloned folder

git clone https://[e-mail]/Repo_Name.git

cd Repo_Name

Answer 6

You have to actually cd into the directory first:

$ git clone git://cfdem.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/cfdem/liggghts
Cloning into 'liggghts'...
remote: Counting objects: 3005, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2141/2141), done.
remote: Total 3005 (delta 1052), reused 2714 (delta 827)
Receiving objects: 100% (3005/3005), 23.80 MiB | 2.22 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1052/1052), done.

$ git status
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
$ cd liggghts/
$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)