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In a hook script for Git, I am trying to run a command like this..

please refer to(git --git-dir not working as expected)

git log --name-status --git-dir="C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\CMS\.git" --work-tree="C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\CMS"

when I run this command I am getting the following error. 

fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Is there any thing wrong in the command I am using?

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I recently had this problem on Mac, the solution for me was to put the --git-dir and --work-tree directives before the git subcommand.

So, your command would look like this:

git --git-dir="C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\CMS\.git" --work-tree="C:\Documents and Settings\user\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\CMS" log --name-status

HTH, it did the trick for me.

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    It's odd that it works for anyone with it *after*. `--git-dir` is an option for `git`, not for `log`. – Cascabel Feb 08 '11 at 00:11
  • Thanks it solves the problem on Windows also: `"c:\program files (x86)\git\bin\git.exe" --git-dir="c:/path/to/repo/.git" --work-tree="c:/path/to/repo" commit -m"Message" c:\path\to\repo\file.test` – 79E09796 Nov 11 '14 at 11:11
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Since it is a hook script, it will probably use POSIX paths, in a bash session, not Windows paths.

git log --name-status --git-dir='/C/Documents and Settings/user/My Documents/Visual Studio 2008/Projects/CMS/.git' --work-tree='/C/Documents and Settings/user/My Documents/Visual Studio 2008/Projects/CMS'

From a DOS session (as in "not a hook), the path might have looked like:

git log --name-status --git-dir='C:/Documents and Settings/user/My Documents/Visual Studio 2008/Projects/CMS/.git' --work-tree='C:/Documents and Settings/user/My Documents/Visual Studio 2008/Projects/CMS'

Alternative syntax (not tested): "c:\\xxx\\yyy\\..."

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