[SOLVED] Git - fatal: Could not get current working directory?

Issue

When I git clone from a repo, I get,

fatal: Could not get current working directory: No such file or directory

What do I do? I have checked the server and found that .git file exists. The server is running a Gitlab instance. I have configured ssh properly with the keys, and I've been committing & cloning for a while now without any error, and this happens all of a sudden.

FWIW, I'm doing the git clone in a bash script.

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Update

This is my bash script,

for repo in $repos
do
   git clone $repo /tmp/tmpdir/
   # do stuff with /tmp/tmpdir/
   rm -rf /tmp/tmpdir/
done

for the first repo it's fine, but when the for gets into the second repo it fails and gives the above fatal error.

Solution

My guess is that somewhere in your do stuff section you change directory into /tmp/tmpdir/ so that in the next loop, the current working directory no longer exists. The fix is to change directory to /tmp/ (or anywhere really) before removing the /tmp/tmdir/ directory.

Answered By - Dave Morrissey

Answer Checked By - Cary Denson (WPSolving Admin)