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Development Tools Introduction to Git First Commits First Commits

Posted by Ridge Christianson
Ridge Christianson
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When i type in git commit it just says: fatal: fatal: Not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /home/treeho

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

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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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Travis Alstrand
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This sounds like it's not able to find the hidden .git directory.

I would ensure that you're at the root of your project with the cd command before trying again.

If it's still happening, can you make sure you've run git init to initialize this as a git repository?