![]() You will see a success message indicating that the command was successful. If you have run this command in a local directory then that directory becomes a Git repository. As you might recall, this means you must run the Git initialization command: git init New to Git? Check out the full Git guide for beginners.Īny directory, local or remote, must be initialized with Git. In order to properly diagnose why your Git project is not accepting commands or why your remote repositories are not being recognized you must understand what Git is looking for when it is trying to interact with a repository. Virtually any directory in your local computer, or on a remote server, can be initialized with Git. When working with Git repositories you are working, in essence, with directories that have been initialized as Git projects. Read on to learn what you can check in order to diagnose and treat this error. But have no fear, a simple typo may have triggered the error. This is why the error can be frustrating if you believe you have set everything up correctly. The directory or remote file path might not have initialized Git, or the file path you are trying to access as an active repository is incorrect.Īt the most basic level, Git is basically indicating that the repository you are trying to work with is unrecognizable as a Git project. The “… does not appear to be a git repository” error is triggered when you try to clone, or run other commands, in a directory that is not recognized as a Git repository. What Causes The “Does Not Appear To Be a Git Repository” Error? Make sure your repository is recognized as a Git project.But before you give up on Git, you can easily learn what causes this error, how to diagnose it, and how to avoid it in the future. And it can be difficult to track down a root cause if you don’t know where to start looking. This frustrating error is no stranger to Git users. ![]() Pruning a remote can also be called explicitly as git remote prune.Fatal error: does not appear to be a Git repository. X (none) -> origin/feature/deleted-last-weekĪs it no longer exists on the remote. Resolving deltas: 100% (399/399), completed with 27 local objects.ģce27d develop -> origin/develop If the branch feature/deleted-last-week nolonger exists on the remote (because someone else deleted it already), running fetch -p will remove the local reference to it: $ git fetch -p Git fetch has the option to prune remote branches, that means for example: $ git branch -a git push origin :branchname will remove the remote branch origin/branchname both locally and on the remote itself. if you want to remove a branch from a remote repository, you will have to push an “empty” branch to it, e.g. So by executing git fetch -prune origin or git fetch -p the remote branch origin/featureX will be removed too.ītw. Instead, you will need to tell the fetch command to prune any branches that no longer exist on the remote branch. This is to prevent you from accidentally losing the branch (imagine someone accidentally removed the branch from the remote, then everyone who fetched from it would also lose it, making it hard to restore it). However, when you fetch, the three remote branches will all still exist, including the one that was deleted in the remote repository. Then origin only has two branches master and featureY. Now, imagine someone else merges featureX into master and removes the feature branch from the remote repository. Then after fetching the following “remote branches” exist in your local repository: origin/master, origin/featureX and origin/featureY. So assume origin has branches master, featureX and featureY. When you fetch a remote repository, say “origin”, you will get remote branches for each branch that exists on that remote repository.
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