Why am I getting the message, "fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree?"

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Just installed git on Windows. I set the GIT_DIR variable to be c:\git\ and verified that this environment variable is maintained by cygwin (i.e. echo $GIT_DIR is what it should be). I went to the folder that I wanted to create the git repository for, let's say c:\www, and then ran:

git init
git add .

Then I get the error:

fatal: This operation must be run in a work tree

I'm not sure what went wrong, but the c:\git directory has a config file that says:

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = true
    symlinks = false
    ignorecase = true

I'm pretty sure this shouldn't be bare and that's our problem.

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18 Answers

This should solve it: 

git config --unset core.bare
user_65836100

In my case, I was in the same folder as ".git" file for my repo. I had to go one directory level up, it solved it.

user_96097340

If nothing else seems to work, double-check the path in git config core.worktree. If that path doesn't point to your working directory, you may need to update it.

The way I got this error was that I created a Git repository on a network drive. It worked fine on one computer but returned this error on another. It turned out that I had the drive mapped to a Windows drive letter on the computer where I created it, but not on the other computer, and Git saved the path to the work tree as the mapped path and not the UNC path.

user_19389560

Simple 2 liner solution:

1- Execute this command on your code repo: git config --unset core.bare

2- Go to config file of your git repo and add this under core tag:

bare = false worktree = /webroot/repo [Path to your root directory,one step above the git folder]

user_83587620

If an existing (non-bare) checkout begins giving this error, check your .git/config file; if core.bare is true, remove that config line

user_16956800

The following command in my project directory fixed my issue

git --work-tree=/path/to/work/tree

To get your project path, enter the pwd command in your project directory if you are using Linux or MacOs

user_120428980

Same issue i got, i did following steps,

  1. git init
  2. git add .
  3. git commit -m"inital setup"
  4. git push -f origin master

then it work starts working.

user_26480000

Edited the config file and changed bare = true to bare = false

user_39530600

In addition, apparently, this error will happen if you clone into NTFS Ram Drive.

user_28405310

In my case it was from github's side their servers were under maintenance or having an update you can check the status of github services in this link: https://www.githubstatus.com/

user_124709580
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