From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Keller Subject: Re: First time gitr - have some questions Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:28:11 -0500 Message-ID: <71753C67-F692-4CA6-A8BB-39B606D0CC76@kellerfarm.com> References: <1295893245907-5956101.post@n2.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: toltmanns X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 24 21:40:40 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhTDK-00032T-U9 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:40:39 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752105Ab1AXUkd (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:40:33 -0500 Received: from sanjose.tchmachines.com ([208.76.86.38]:38089 "EHLO leia.tchmachines.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344Ab1AXUkc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:40:32 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 4337 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:40:32 EST Received: from public-67-55.emich.edu ([164.76.67.55]) by leia.tchmachines.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PhS5B-0007xc-2l; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:28:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1295893245907-5956101.post@n2.nabble.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - leia.tchmachines.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - kellerfarm.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Jan 24, 2011, at 1:20 PM, toltmanns wrote: > First off, I may be in the wrong place, but I need a sanity check here. Communication is the most efficient way to implement a sanity check. > I've downloaded and am attempting to use the git bash app, trying to issue > the following command and am getting fatal: Not a git repository > > git submodule add git@github.com:toltmanns/steal.git public/steal I like that error because of how few scenarios can cause it. Your current working directory is not inside a repository. 'cd' into the repository and try again. ~ Andrew Keller