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

[trac]

How to Reproduce

While doing a GET operation on /timeline, Trac issued an internal error.

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Request parameters:

{}

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0.1

System Information

Trac	1.0beta1
Babel	0.9.6
Genshi	0.6 (without speedups)
GIT	1.7.4.1
GIT	1.7.4.1
mod_wsgi	3.3 (WSGIProcessGroup WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL})
Pygments	1.4
pysqlite	2.6.0
Python	2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:37:12) [GCC 4.5.2]
pytz	2010b
setuptools	0.6
SQLite	3.7.4
jQuery	1.7.2

Enabled Plugins

TracGit

0.11.0.2

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 490, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 205, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trac/timeline/web_ui.py", line 153, in process_request
    available_filters += event_provider.get_timeline_filters(req) or []
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trac/versioncontrol/web_ui/changeset.py", line 871, in get_timeline_filters
    repositories = rm.get_real_repositories()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 613, in get_real_repositories
    repos = self.get_repository(reponame)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 553, in get_repository
    repoinfo.copy())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/git_fs.py", line 162, in get_repository
    shortrev_len=self._shortrev_len)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/git_fs.py", line 179, in __init__
    git_bin=git_bin).getInstance()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/PyGIT.py", line 120, in __init__
    i = Storage(repo, log, git_bin)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/PyGIT.py", line 194, in __init__
    raise GitError("GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?")
GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?

[Jun Omae]

It seems that the specified directory is not Git repository. Make sure that the directory is Git repository.

And, Trac 1.0beta1 or later have built-in support for Git. You don't need the GitPlugin. See ​#T10594.