first, i realize this is almost entirely a fedora packaging issue and i'm planning on reporting it there, but i just want to make sure i'm not doing something stupid. knowing nothing about the git-lfs package, i thought i would install it and just poke around out of sheer curiosity, so on my fully-updated fedora 28 system, i ran: $ sudo dnf install git-lfs which did in fact install that package, but also generated (abridged version): ... snip ... Running transaction Preparing : Installing : git-lfs-2.4.0-1.fc28.x86_64 Running scriptlet: git-lfs-2.4.0-1.fc28.x86_64 Error: Failed to call git rev-parse --git-dir --show-toplevel: "fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git\n" Git LFS initialized. Verifying : git-lfs-2.4.0-1.fc28.x86_64 Installed: git-lfs.x86_64 2.4.0-1.fc28 is one supposed to be *in* a git repository when installing, because i was in fact at the top level of my linux kernel source repo, so i'm unclear on what that "Error" is trying to tell me. am i just being clueless? is this something that i should submit as a fedora packaging issue? rday