
Andrew Kovalenko
Courses Plus Student 13,453 PointsGit status showing - fatal: Not a git repository.
I follow everything as shown in the video, but my git status isn't working as it supposed to.
1 Answer

Alex Koumparos
Python Web Development Techdegree Student 35,937 PointsHi Andrew,
It looks like you either didn't create a repository (using git init
) or you are not in the same directory as where you created the repository.
I'm not sure if you are using Windows or Mac/Linux. The following commands will work with Unix/Unix-like systems. If you are using Windows, let me know and I'll give you the Windows equivalent.
- Check that you are in the directory you think you should be:
pwd
. You should be inside the directory where you created the git repo (when you typedgit init
) and not the parent directory. - If you are definitely in the right directory, maybe you didn't create the repo. Check by typing
ls -a
. You should see.git
in the output. If you don't have a.git
subdirectory, you don't have a git repo initialised. - If you don't have the repo initialised, type
git init
.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Alex