Why am I getting the message, “fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree?”

Question

Just installed git on Windows. I set the GIT_DIR variable to be c:\\git\\ and verified that this environment variable is maintained by cygwin (i.e. echo $GIT_DIR is what it

Answer 1

In my case, I was in the same folder as ".git" file for my repo. I had to go one directory level up, it solved it.

Answer 2

If an existing (non-bare) checkout begins giving this error, check your .git/config file; if core.bare is true, remove that config line

Answer 3

Same issue i got, i did following steps,

1. git init
2. git add .
3. git commit -m"inital setup"
4. git push -f origin master

then it work starts working.