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No .git directory found!

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, kotlin
Domain
build-system

Research direction

Start by inspecting script-git-version.gradle and reproducing the Gradle build in the reported checkout. Determine why Grgit.open requires a .git directory, then verify that the project builds successfully in the affected environment without this exception.

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Error build gradle : Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No .git directory found!
In script-git-version.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.ajoberstar.grgit:grgit-core:4.1.1'
    }
}

import org.ajoberstar.grgit.Grgit

ext {
    git = Grgit.open(currentDir: projectDir)
    gitCommitHash = git.head().abbreviatedId
    gitNumberOfCommits = git.log().size()
    gitTagDescription = git.describe(tags: true)
    git.close()
}
Dominant language
Kotlin
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Merged PRs (30d)
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