Re: issues(?) installing git-lfs via fedora "dnf" command

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: May 21, 2018, 17:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20180521170353.GA10623@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1805210625410.6679@localhost.localdomain>

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   $ sudo dnf install git-lfs

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>   Running transaction
>     Preparing        :
>     Installing       : git-lfs-2.4.0-1.fc28.x86_64
>     Running scriptlet: git-lfs-2.4.0-1.fc28.x86_64
>   Error: Failed to call git rev-parse --git-dir --show-toplevel: "fatal:
>   not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git\n"

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> is one supposed to be *in* a git repository when installing, because i
> was in fact at the top level of my linux kernel source repo, so i'm
> unclear on what that "Error" is trying to tell me. am i just being
> clueless? is this something that i should submit as a fedora packaging
> issue?

Yes, this looks like something that should be reported as a Fedora packaging issue.

The packager should be able to find out whether it's an issue in git-lfs upstream and report it to that project if it is. Git-lfs is not part of git.git; it's a separate project: https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md I believe they use github's issue tracker to track bugs.

Thanks, Jonathan