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I have a remote folder that I am currently unable to push to. When I go directly to the remote directory and a do a 'git status' it reads:
fatal: Not a git repository
The .git folder does exists and it was working fine yesterday and nothing has changed since.
Can anyone tell me the reason(s) why I might receive this message even though the .git folder exists?
Thanks in advance for your help. Much appreciated!
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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?
This fatal error "not a git repository" is produced when you are running any git command on a non-git project location. For example, run the git status command to see the current status of the git stage. In the below example, I have created a new folder and executed the git status command.
This error means you attempted to run a Git command, but weren’t inside a Git repository. Make sure you’ve: Navigated to the right directory. Check with `ls`. Initialized your repository with `git init` or by cloning an existing repo.
Solution#01: Initialize the Git Repository in your Project Folder. If you are in your project folder, first check if this directory is initialized with git. Use the command ls -la to check this. If you are in git initialized folder you will see the .git/ folder in the output of the project.
If the permissions on the .git folder are fine, see that there is a file .git/HEAD existing or is not named wrongly like .git/head. The presence of .git/HEAD ( or HEAD in case of bare) is the secondary check for a git repository
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Clone the remote repository into another folder and compare the .git folders.
This will give you indication about missing or corrupted files.
You'll probably see a difference in the objects folder that you can ignore.
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