GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM not set

Question

I have searched and read few post but my problem is not the same as described  So here s the issue  using git clone into folder under external partition of the disk works fine but all git commands fails  can t execute git status or git log    I always get error fatal  Not a git repository  or any parent up to mount parent  home kozi  Stopping at filesystem boundary  GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM not set    Please help me out       -- abi  -- bionic  -- bootable  -- build  -- cts  -- dalvik  -- development  -- device  -- docs  -- external  -- frameworks  -- gdk  -- hardware  -- libcore  -- libnativehelper  -- ndk  -- packages  -- pdk  -- prebuilts  --  repo  -- sdk  -- system  -- tools

User · Answer

I came into this issue when I copy my local repository.

sudo cp -r original_repo backup_repo
cd backup_repo

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

I've try git init as some answer suggested, but it doesn't work.

sudo git init
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /data/HQ/SC_Educations/hq_htdocs/HQ_Educations_bak/.git/

I solved it by change the owner of the repo

sudo chown -R www:www ../backup_repo

git status
# On branch develop
nothing to commit, working directory clean

User · Answer

ran across this page and several like it all talking about the GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM not set message  In my case our sys admin had decided that the apache2 directory needed to be on a mounted filesystem in case the disk for the server stopped working and had to get rebuilt  I found this with a simple df command   -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc  --PRODUCTION-- 16 48 43 -- gt  df -h Filesystem                           Size  Used Avail Use  Mounted on  lt snip gt   dev mapper vgraid-lvapache           63G   54M   60G   1   etc apache2  lt snip gt    To fix this I just put the following in the root user s shell  as they are the only ones who need to be looking at etckeeper revisions   export GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM 1   and all was well and good   much joy   More notes   -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc  --PRODUCTION-- 16 48 54 -- gt  export GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM 0  -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc  --PRODUCTION-- 16 57 35 -- gt  git status On branch master nothing to commit  working tree clean  -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc  --PRODUCTION-- 16 57 40 -- gt  touch apache2 me  -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc  --PRODUCTION-- 16 57 45 -- gt  git status On branch master Untracked files     use  git add  lt file gt      to include in what will be committed       apache2 me  nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  git add  to track   -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc  --PRODUCTION-- 16 57 47 -- gt  cd apache2  -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc apache2  --PRODUCTION-- 16 57 50 -- gt  git status fatal  Not a git repository  or any parent up to mount point  etc apache2  Stopping at filesystem boundary  GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM not set   -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc apache2  --PRODUCTION-- 16 57 52 -- gt  export GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM 1  -- gt   UBIk   lt -- root ns1   etc apache2  --PRODUCTION-- 16 58 59 -- gt  git status On branch master Untracked files     use  git add  lt file gt      to include in what will be committed       me  nothing added to commit but untracked files present  use  git add  to track    Hopefully that will help someone out somewhere    -wc

User · Answer

Just type git init into your command line and press enter  Then run your command again  you probably were running git remote add origin  your-repository    That should work  if it doesn t  just let me know

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For complete the accepted answer  Had the same issue  First specified the remote  git remote add origin https   github com XXXX YYY git  git fetch    Then get the code   git pull origin master

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For android source code with repo  I beleive you should use REPO  if you really want to use git  you should know if the project has  git directory with ls -a  Or you have to enter the sub project directory which should include the  git

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In short  git is trying to access a repo it considers on another filesystem and to tell it explicitly that you re okay with this  you must set the environment variable GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM 1  I m working in a CI CD environment and using a dockerized git so I have to set it in that environment docker run -e GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM 1 -v   pwd   git --rm alpine git rev-parse --short HEAD     If you re curious  Above mounts   pwd  into the git docker container and passes  rev-parse --short HEAD  to the git command in the container  which it then runs against that mounted volums

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The problem is you are not in the correct directory  A simple fix in Jupyter is to do the following command    Move to the GitHub directory for your installation Run the GitHub command   Here is an example command to use in Jupyter     bash cd  home ec2-user ml volume GitHub BMM git show   Note you need to do the commands in the same cell

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Check whether you are actually under a github repo   So  listing of  git  should give you results  otherwise you may be some level outside your repo    Now  cd to your repo and you are good to go

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