“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

In my case, was an environment variable GIT_DIR, which I added to access faster.

This also broke all my local repos in SourceTree :(