“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 had another problem. I was in a git directory, but got there through a symlink. I had to go into the directory directly (i.e. not through the symlink) then it worked fine.