smithy init. throws error "Unable to run `git fetch --depth 1`: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git"

[purnasrivatsa96]

This happens despite being in a git repo.

Version 1.53.0

[JordonPhillips]

Can you give more details about what you are doing? For example, exact commands and a reproduceable environment? The following works just fine for instance:

> mkdir /tmp/smithy-init-test
> cd /tmp/smithy-init-test
> git init .
> smithy init .

[purnasrivatsa96]

Just running the first command in the public tutorial guide -
https://smithy.io/2.0/tutorials/full-stack-tutorial.html

smithy init -t full-stack-application

was giving -

"Unable to run git fetch --depth 1: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

[sugmanue]

I just ran that command without any issues, can you please let us know which version of the Smithy CLI are you using? (output of smithy --version)

[purnasrivatsa96]

1.53.0

[purnasrivatsa96]

Hi any resolution to this ?

> mkdir /tmp/smithy-init-test
> cd /tmp/smithy-init-test
> git init .
> smithy init .

Tried all of this and the last one gives -
Unable to run git fetch --depth 1: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

[kstich]

If this is failing when trying to fetch, the git init . has failed in some way. The .git directory is created as part of that command.

[purnasrivatsa96]

(base) purnasrivatsa@Purnas-MacBook-Air quickstart-java % mkdir /tmp/smithy-init-test
(base) purnasrivatsa@Purnas-MacBook-Air quickstart-java % cd /tmp/smithy-init-test
(base) purnasrivatsa@Purnas-MacBook-Air smithy-init-test % git init .
hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name
hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all
hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call:
hint:
hint: 	git config --global init.defaultBranch <name>
hint:
hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and
hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command:
hint:
hint: 	git branch -m <name>
Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/smithy-init-test/.git/
(base) purnasrivatsa@Purnas-MacBook-Air smithy-init-test % git status
On branch master

No commits yet

nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)
(base) purnasrivatsa@Purnas-MacBook-Air smithy-init-test % git branch
(base) purnasrivatsa@Purnas-MacBook-Air smithy-init-test % ls -la
total 0
.
.
.
drwxr-xr-x   9 purnasrivatsa  wheel  288 Feb 17 23:14 .git
(base) purnasrivatsa@Purnas-MacBook-Air smithy-init-test % smithy init .
Unable to run `git fetch --depth 1`: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git