I am on RedHat Linux Server 5.7, installed git and all worked great. Performed a "git add ." and sat back and watched it chew up GB fo data and create the .git repository, which I was going to study. But then I decided to delete the .git repository before the commit, and redo the work after I added additional files to the filesystem. The git application no longer works. I have done a complete deletion of all files that I know of and a complete reinstallation and yet every time that I attempt to get git to reread the directory and recreate the repository or ANY repository on the system even while root the error message is: [root@localhost wizdom]# git add . fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git Any idea on how to fix this problem so that I can get on with using git? Wizdom is a dir of management information systems related files, 29.4GB in size, containing 264380 files, for systems administration and when git had complete the add command it had create a dir /home/Object/wizdon/.git that was 26.1GB in size and with 212774 files in 256 sub-folders. ============================================ [root@localhost ~]# mkdir /tmp/git_source [root@localhost ~]# cp /home/Object/Desktop/100511/git/git-1.7.7.tar.gz /tmp/git_source/. [root@localhost ~]# openssl dgst -sha1 /tmp/git_source/git-1.7.7.tar.gz SHA1(/tmp/git_source/git-1.7.7.tar.gz)= bbf85bd767ca6b7e9caa1489bb4ba7ec64e0ab35 [root@localhost ~]# cd /tmp/git_source/ [root@localhost git_source]# tar -xzf git-1.7.7.tar.gz [root@localhost git_source]# ls git-1.7.7 git-1.7.7.tar.gz [root@localhost git_source]# ./configure [root@localhost git-1.7.7]# make [root@localhost git-1.7.7]# make install [root@localhost git-1.7.7]# updatedb [root@localhost git-1.7.7]# which git /usr/local/bin/git [root@localhost ~]# ls -al /usr/local/bin/gi* -rwxr-xr-x 109 root root 5113079 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120939 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-cvsserver -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 324172 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/gitk -rwxr-xr-x 109 root root 5113079 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-receive-pack -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2144914 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-shell -rwxr-xr-x 109 root root 5113079 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-upload-archive -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2195752 Oct 13 13:14 /usr/local/bin/git-upload-pack Just to see what it would do, or what it does, I ran git against my systems administration collection called wizdom on a Dell T-410 with one socket in use. [root@localhost git-1.7.7]# git --version git version 1.7.7 [root@localhost wizdom]# git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/Object/Desktop/wizdom/.git/ [root@localhost wizdom]# git add . [root@localhost wizdom]# And in another window while "git add ." ran, I execute the top command to see what the processor had to say: [root@localhost ~]# top top - 16:12:43 up 1 day, 21:19, 4 users, load average: 1.35, 0.73, 0.32 Tasks: 232 total, 2 running, 230 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 0.7%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 2.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 46.7%id, 50.7%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 1.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu6 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu7 : 93.7%us, 2.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 3.3%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 5968036k total, 5932372k used, 35664k free, 191688k buffers Swap: 8159224k total, 0k used, 8159224k free, 4938104k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 16250 root 25 0 17344 1428 792 D 96.2 0.0 1:09.41 git-fast-import 16233 root 18 0 44348 29m 1036 S 1.3 0.5 0:53.89 git ... Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html