fatal: Not a git repository

fatal: Not a git repository

[T]

I am on RedHat Linux Server 5.7, installed git and all worked great.

Performed a "git add ." and sat back and watched it chew up GB fo data and create the .git repository, which I was going to study.  But then I decided to delete the .git repository before the commit, and redo the work after I added additional files to the filesystem.

The git application no longer works.  I have done a complete deletion of all files that I know of and a complete reinstallation and yet every time that I attempt to get git to reread the directory and recreate the repository or ANY repository on the system even while root the error message is:



[root@localhost wizdom]# git add .
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git




Any idea on how to fix this problem so that I can get on with using git?

Wizdom is a dir of management information systems related files, 29.4GB in size, containing 264380 files, for systems administration and when git had complete the add command it had create a dir /home/Object/wizdon/.git that was 26.1GB in size and with 212774 files in 256 sub-folders.


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[root@localhost ~]# mkdir /tmp/git_source
[root@localhost ~]# cp /home/Object/Desktop/100511/git/git-1.7.7.tar.gz /tmp/git_source/.
[root@localhost ~]# openssl dgst -sha1 /tmp/git_source/git-1.7.7.tar.gz
SHA1(/tmp/git_source/git-1.7.7.tar.gz)= bbf85bd767ca6b7e9caa1489bb4ba7ec64e0ab35
[root@localhost ~]# cd /tmp/git_source/
[root@localhost git_source]# tar -xzf git-1.7.7.tar.gz
[root@localhost git_source]# ls
git-1.7.7  git-1.7.7.tar.gz
[root@localhost git_source]# ./configure
[root@localhost git-1.7.7]# make
[root@localhost git-1.7.7]# make install
[root@localhost git-1.7.7]# updatedb
[root@localhost git-1.7.7]# which git
/usr/local/bin/git
[root@localhost ~]# ls -al /usr/local/bin/gi*
-rwxr-xr-x 109 root root 5113079 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root root  120939 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-cvsserver
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  324172 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/gitk
-rwxr-xr-x 109 root root 5113079 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-receive-pack
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root root 2144914 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-shell
-rwxr-xr-x 109 root root 5113079 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-upload-archive
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root root 2195752 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-upload-pack



Just to see what it would do, or what it does, I ran git against my systems administration collection called wizdom on a Dell T-410 with one socket in use.


[root@localhost git-1.7.7]# git --version
git version 1.7.7
[root@localhost wizdom]# git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Object/Desktop/wizdom/.git/
[root@localhost wizdom]# git add .
[root@localhost wizdom]#



And in another window while "git add ." ran, I execute the top command to see what the processor had to say:

[root@localhost ~]# top
top - 16:12:43 up 1 day, 21:19,  4 users,  load average: 1.35, 0.73, 0.32
Tasks: 232 total,   2 running, 230 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu0  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu1  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu2  :  0.7%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.3%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu3  :  0.0%us,  2.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 46.7%id, 50.7%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Cpu4  :  0.0%us,  1.0%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu5  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu6  :  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Cpu7  : 93.7%us,  2.7%sy,  0.0%ni,  3.3%id,  0.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   5968036k total,  5932372k used,    35664k free,   191688k buffers
Swap:  8159224k total,        0k used,  8159224k free,  4938104k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
16250 root      25   0 17344 1428  792 D 96.2  0.0   1:09.41 git-fast-import
16233 root      18   0 44348  29m 1036 S  1.3  0.5   0:53.89 git
...



Thanks!

Re: fatal: Not a git repository

[BlackSwan]

Sorry.... I figured it out, and it was right in front of me.

[root@localhost wizdom]# git init


Thanks all!

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