.git folder disappeared, git status gives "Not a git repository"

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I have been using a git repository on my MacBook Pro (OS X Mountain Lion) for several months. Mostly, I've been using the SmartGit client, but also command line. Today, I changed several files and went to SmartGit to commit and push, and SmartGit had "missing" by the repo name.

Using Finder, I confirmed that the working tree folder and subfolders were all in good shape.

On the command line, "ls -a" showed a .gitignore file but no .git folder in the working tree folder.

Tried "git status" and it gave:

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

I do have the same repository on a Windows machine as well, where it's working fine. It's just missing those changed files on the MacBook Pro that hadn't been committed yet.

Suggestions on how to proceed?

I finally just re-cloned the repo from github into an empty folder and moved the few changed files into that folder. — user1147171
– user1147171, Commented Mar 6, 2013 at 6:23

Michael Wild · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-26 06:05:23Z

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I suggest you git clone the repository from your Windows machine to a temporary directory (copying it should do as well), and then move the .git directory over to your original working directory.

answered Feb 26, 2013 at 6:05

Michael Wild

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Ilya Sereb Over a year ago

stackoverflow.com/a/13852329/6252399 This has a nice example on how to do this

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