Re: issues(?) installing git-lfs via fedora "dnf" command

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On Mon, 21 May 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   $ sudo dnf install git-lfs
> [...]
> >   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"
> [...]
> > 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?
>
> Yes, this looks like something that should be reported as a Fedora
> packaging issue.
>
> The packager should be able to find out whether it's an issue in
> git-lfs upstream and report it to that project if it is.  Git-lfs is
> not part of git.git; it's a separate project:
> https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
> I believe they use github's issue tracker to track bugs.

  it would *appear* that this is a combination of both a git issue,
and a red hat packaging issue:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1580357
https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/issues/3013

rday



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