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Development Tools Introduction to Git Managing Committed Files Removing Files

Posted by marekdzicio
marekdzicio
6,429 Points

Not a git repository

treehouse:~/workspace$ git status
fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home/treehouse/wor
kspace)
Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set).

3 Answers

Jeff Wilton
Jeff Wilton
16,646 Points
Jeff Wilton
Jeff Wilton
16,646 Points

I've done this so many times myself! You are in the parent workspace directory, not in the project directory.

You are here:

~/workspace$

And according to the video, you need to be here:

~/workspace/medals$

So, a simple 

~/workspace$ cd medals

should do the trick!

marekdzicio
marekdzicio
6,429 Points

Tnx for the answer. Works of course.

sebbe12
sebbe12
4,015 Points
sebbe12
sebbe12
4,015 Points

Thank you

Angel Angelov
Angel Angelov
20,250 Points
Angel Angelov
Angel Angelov
20,250 Points

Thanks you so much. Was browsing around the questions and answers and that is definitely the best answer. Solved for a sec. Thanks