“fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories)” from git status

Question

This command works to get the files and compile them:

git clone a-valid-git-url

for example:

git clone git://cfdem.git.sour         


        

Answer 1

I just got this message and there is a very simple answer before trying the others. At the parent directory, type git init

This will initialize the directory for git. Then git add and git commit should work.