fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git - 10 Causes and Fixes
You ran a Git command and got fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git . That message means exactly one thing: Git walked up from your current directory to the filesystem root and never found a .git entry, so it has no repository to operate on. This is not a corruption error and not a network error. It is a location error — either you are standing in the wrong directory, or the directory you expected to be a repository never became one, or the .git directory is there but unreadable by the process that asked. Below: the one-line fix that covers most cases, then 10 distinct causes with a reproduction and a fix for each, a diagnostic checklist for the cases that match none of them, and an explanation of why Git is designed to fail this way. Error fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git Where it happens Git CLI on any OS (Linux, macOS, Windows, WSL), and anything that shells out to git: IDE Git panels, CI runners, Docker ...