* [Bug] Misleading error message when run in a non-Git directory @ 2020-04-23 22:42 Victor Porton 2020-04-23 23:26 ` brian m. carlson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Victor Porton @ 2020-04-23 22:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: git git remote add origin ... produces the error fatal: remote origin already exists. when run in the directory which is not initialized by Git (has no .git folder). This error message is misleading. git --version git version 2.20.1 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: [Bug] Misleading error message when run in a non-Git directory 2020-04-23 22:42 [Bug] Misleading error message when run in a non-Git directory Victor Porton @ 2020-04-23 23:26 ` brian m. carlson 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: brian m. carlson @ 2020-04-23 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Victor Porton; +Cc: git [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 773 bytes --] On 2020-04-23 at 22:42:25, Victor Porton wrote: > git remote add origin ... > > produces the error > > fatal: remote origin already exists. > > when run in the directory which is not initialized by Git (has no .git > folder). > > This error message is misleading. I don't see this, using a reasonably up-to-date version of next. What I see is the following: $ git remote add origin foo fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git Are you running this in a directory under your home directory? If so, is your home directory a repository? If not, can you tell us what running "git rev-parse --show-toplevel" in that directory prints? -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204 [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 263 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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