GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?

[runar@…]

I've seen #5480 - my repo is owned by www-data:www-data. The path

How to Reproduce 1

$ sudo -u www-data trac-admin ./ repository resync "Timely"
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/svn/fs.py:27: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
  import sys as _sys, os as _os, popen2 as _popen2, tempfile as _tempfile
GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?

How to Reproduce 2

While doing a GET operation on /admin/versioncontrol/repository, Trac issued an internal error.

(please provide additional details here)

Request parameters:

{'cat_id': u'versioncontrol', 'panel_id': u'repository', 'path_info': None}

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/8.0.552.237 Safari/534.10

System Information

Trac	0.12.1
Babel	0.9.5
Docutils	0.5
Genshi	0.6
GIT	1.6.0.4
Pygments	0.10
pysqlite	2.4.1
Python	2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18) [GCC 4.3.3]
pytz	2008h
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.6.10
Subversion	1.5.4 (r33841)
jQuery	1.4.2

Enabled Plugins

TracAccountManager	0.3dev-r9785
TracGit	0.12.0.5dev

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 511, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 202, in dispatch
    chosen_handler)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/web/main.py", line 344, in _pre_process_request
    chosen_handler = filter_.pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 330, in pre_process_request
    repo = self.get_repository(reponame)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 526, in get_repository
    repos = connector.get_repository(rtype, rdir, repoinfo.copy())
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracext/git/git_fs.py", line 252, in get_repository
    use_committer_time=self._use_committer_time,
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracext/git/git_fs.py", line 368, in __init__
    git_fs_encoding=git_fs_encoding).getInstance()
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracext/git/PyGIT.py", line 136, in __init__
    i = Storage(repo, log, git_bin, git_fs_encoding)
  File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/tracext/git/PyGIT.py", line 249, in __init__
    raise GitError("GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?")
GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?

[runar@…]

Oh, sorry. I just figured out I had to use the .git folder under the (for me) "actual" repo dir. So I did and it works.

Then I saw this is a note under Troubleshooting in the install documentation.

I would suggest making that note more visible. :)