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
