I get an error when run codecrafters test: create temp branch: add all files: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git but actually this folder is a git repository and .git exists. ls output: total 40 drwxr-xr-x@ 11 aurora staff 352 Jun 6 21:23 . drwxr-xr-x 5 au…

@kravlad Ah, the issue was caused by this: ⛳ globalGitIgnore path: /Users/aurora/configs/gitignore ⛳ globalGitIgnore content: .git *.git Those patterns are a bit unusual since Git treats .git/ specially, and it ends up interfering with our CLI, which relies on the .git/ directory being present to …

Hi andy1li, thanks for your reply. It doesn’t look that git directory might be corrupted. I did git clone just a day ago and did nothing except git commit and git push. Anyway, below requested outputs: [Screenshot 2025-06-08 at 20.29.11] [Screenshot 2025-06-08 at 20.29.26] [Screenshot 2025-06-…

@kravlad Would you mind zipping your repo and sending it to “hello at codecrafters.io ”?

Sure, already sent from kravlad86 at gmail

I’ve received your repo, but couldn’t reproduce the error when running codecrafters test. [image] Could you try the following to see if it resolves the issue on your end? Reinstall the CLI brew reinstall codecrafters-io/tap/codecrafters Re-clone the repo [image] Create a new repo [image…

[image] andy1li: brew reinstall codecrafters-io/tap/codecrafters No, nothing of those helped

Hey @kravlad , sorry for the delayed response! For context: the CLI actually copies your repo into a temporary directory before running the Git commands from there. This error looks a bit unusual, so I made a special debug build of the CLI that logs extra info. Could you please run it and share the…

Hi @andy1li , here you go :slight_smile: No CodeCrafters git remotes found. Available remotes: ``https://github.com/codecrafters-io/cli Please run this command from within your CodeCrafters Git repository.

@kravlad Thanks for sharing the output! Looks like you ran codecrafters test inside the cli repo. Could you try running it from within ~/projects/edu/codecrafters/codecrafters-shell-go and sharing the output again? Thanks!

oh, :man_facepalming: create temp branch: run git command: fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git . Error: exit status 128 output is the same

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andy1li June 9, 2025, 1:47am 4

Hey @kravlad, could you share the contents of your .git directory? It might be corrupted.

It should look something like this:

Also, could you run git status and share the output?

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