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

[gguard]

How to Reproduce

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

(please provide additional details here)

Request parameters:

{'cat_id': None, 'panel_id': None, 'path_info': None}

User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.112 Safari/537.36

System Information

Trac	1.0
Trac	1.0
Babel	0.9.6
Docutils	0.8.1
Genshi	0.6 (with speedups)
GIT	1.7.10.4
MySQL	server: "5.6.27", client: "5.5.37", thread-safe: 1
MySQLdb	1.2.3
Pygments	1.5
Python	2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:37:34) [GCC 4.7.2]
Python	2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:37:34) [GCC 4.7.2]
pytz	2011k
pytz	2011k
setuptools	0.6
setuptools	0.6
Subversion	1.7.5 (r1336830)
jQuery	1.7.2

Enabled Plugins

TracAccountManager	0.3.2
TracGit	0.12.0.5dev

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Trac-1.0-py2.7.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 497, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Trac-1.0-py2.7.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 179, in dispatch
    chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Trac-1.0-py2.7.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 325, in _pre_process_request
    chosen_handler = filter_.pre_process_request(req, chosen_handler)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Trac-1.0-py2.7.egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 343, in pre_process_request
    repo = self.get_repository(reponame)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Trac-1.0-py2.7.egg/trac/versioncontrol/api.py", line 553, in get_repository
    repoinfo.copy())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/git_fs.py", line 244, in get_repository
    use_committer_time=self._use_committer_time,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/git_fs.py", line 360, in __init__
    git_fs_encoding=git_fs_encoding).getInstance()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/PyGIT.py", line 139, in __init__
    i = Storage(repo, log, git_bin, git_fs_encoding)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tracext/git/PyGIT.py", line 252, in __init__
    raise GitError("GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?")
GitError: GIT control files not found, maybe wrong directory?

[Ryan J Ollos]

You have multiple problems.

• Uninstall TracGit and enabled tracopt.versioncontrol.git.*. Trac supports Git as a version control backend since 1.0.
• Upgrade your Trac installation, the latest is 1.0.12, or append /.git to your Git repository path(s). See ​trac:#11297 for more info.

This is a ​InstallationIssue and for future reference such problems should be directed to the ​MailingList.