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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) Using visual studio created a project and initialized it. Git works fine under vs What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) Using a command prompt I cd to where the repository is and give the command git status. What happened instead? (Actual behavior) It reports that this is not a valid repository. I noticed that the repository does not have a .git file What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? Using command prompt if I cd to a different repository (which has a .git file) the git status command works fine Anything else you want to add:

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[System Info] git version: git version 2.45.2.windows.1 cpu: x86_64 built from commit: 91d03cb2e4fbf6ad961ace739b8a646868cb154d sizeof-long: 4 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Windows 10.0 22631 compiler info: gnuc: 14.1 libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>

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