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@mohoray
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opened on Jan 23, 2021

Following is the snippet of the code I am using.

import git
repo = git.Repo(search_parent_directories=True)
branch = repo.active_branch

After running the code, I have received the following error.

File "/home/user_name/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/git/repo/base.py", line 181, in __init__
    raise InvalidGitRepositoryError(epath)
git.exc.InvalidGitRepositoryError: /home/user_name/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/git/repo

It will be really great if I get some suggestions about solving this error. I am using gitpython version 3.1.12.

Thanks a lot.

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  2. Byron commented on Jan 23, 2021

    @Byron
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    Does the path at 'current working directory' actually contain a repository? Here is what GitPython does to figure out if there is a git directory.

    Without further information there is not much that can be done here.

  3. mohoray commented on Jan 23, 2021

    @mohoray
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    on Jan 23, 2021
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    I will check that. Thank you

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